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Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (born 1717)

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717–1783)

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after…
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October 29

Day of the year

October 29 is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 63 days remain until the end of the year.
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