Jean Le Rond D'alembert
1717-1783
French Mathematician and Physicist
The name of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert belongs among the most honored of the philosophes, French thinkers whose ideas ex...
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Alembert, Jean Le Rond D'(1717–1783)
The French mathematician and encyclopedist Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was the illegitimate son of Madame de Tencin and the artillery general Dest...
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The chief contribution by the French mathematician and physicist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) is D'Alembert's principle, in mechanics. He was also a pioneer in the study of partial differential...
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D'Alembert was abandoned by his parents shortly after birth and was found on the doorstep of the church of St. Jean-le-Rond. He was the illegitimate son of an aristocrat who, despite having given up t...
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a mathematician and physicist who applied his considerable genius to solving problems in mechanics. This is the branch of physics that deals with the effect of forces on ma...
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