Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert | |
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Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert, pastel bi Maurice Quentin de La Tour | |
Born | 16 November 1717 Paris |
Dee'd | 29 October 1783 Paris | (aged 65)
Naitionality | French |
Alma mater | Varsity o Paris |
Kent for | D'Alembert criterion D'Alembert force D'Alembert's form o the principle o virtual wirk D'Alembert's formula D'Alembert equation D'Alembert operator D'Alembert's paradox D'Alembert's principle D'Alembert seestem D'Alembert–Euler condeetion Tree o Diderot an d'Alembert Cauchy–Riemann equations Fluid mechanics Encyclopédie Three-body problem |
Awairds | Fellae o the Ryal Society Follae o the Institut de France |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics Mechanics Pheesics Filosofie |
Notable students | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/ˌdæləmˈbɛər/;[1] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛːʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) wis a French mathematician, mechanician, pheesicist, philosopher, an muisic theorist. Till 1759 he wis an aa co-eeditor wi Denis Diderot o the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtainin solutions tae the wave equation is named efter him.[2]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Alembert, d'". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ↑ D'Alembert (1747) "Recherches sur la courbe que forme une corde tenduë mise en vibration" (Researches on the curve that a tense cord forms [when] set into vibration), Histoire de l'académie royale des sciences et belles lettres de Berlin, vol. 3, pages 214-219. See also: D'Alembert (1747) "Suite des recherches sur la courbe que forme une corde tenduë mise en vibration" (Further researches on the curve that a tense cord forms [when] set into vibration), Histoire de l'académie royale des sciences et belles lettres de Berlin, vol. 3, pages 220-249. See also: D'Alembert (1750) "Addition au mémoire sur la courbe que forme une corde tenduë mise en vibration," Histoire de l'académie royale des sciences et belles lettres de Berlin, vol. 6, pages 355-360.
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