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Pierre-Simon Laplace. Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert [1] ( / dæləmˈbɛər / dal-əm-BAIR; [2] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛːʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ...
Oct 29, 2014 · D'Alembert was the illegitimate son from one of Mme de Tencin 'amorous liaisons'. His father, Louis-Camus Destouches, was out of the country at the time of d'Alembert's birth and his mother left the newly born child on the steps of the church of St Jean Le Rond. The child was quickly found and taken to a home for homeless children.
Jean Le Rond D’Alembert. (1717 – 1783) On November 17, 1717, in Paris, France, a son was born to Madame de Tencin, a former nun and the sister of a Roman Catholic cardinal, and her lover, the Chevalier Destouches–Canon, an artillery officer. Because she was afraid that she would be forced to return to the convent if her brother discovered ...
He secured the services of the mathematician Jean d’Alembert in 1745 and of the translator and philosopher Denis Diderot in 1746 to assist in the project. In 1747 Diderot undertook the general direction of work on the Encyclopédie, except for its mathematical parts, which were edited by d’Alembert. (D’Alembert resigned in 1758.)
Mar 23, 2019 · Footnote 8 He obtained a Master of Arts degree (maître ès arts) in 1735 under the name of Jean Le Rond, and it is only before entering the Académie that he took, from then on, the name of D’Alembert. It is therefore Jean Le Rond D’Alembert, scholar with a complex identity, Footnote 9 member of the most prestigious European Academies ...
- Irène Passeron
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was one of the eighteenth century's preeminent mathematicians. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences at the age of only twenty-three. His important contributions include the d'Alembert formula, describing how strings vibrate, and the d'Alembert principle, a generalization of one of Newton's classical laws of ...
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D’ALEMBERT began his career as a mathematician in the year 1739 by presenting to the Academy of Sciences in Paris a list of errors that he had discovered in a standard mathematical work. In the following year, he produced a highly regarded article on fluid mechanics. Then in 1741, D’ALEMBERT was elected a member of the Academy.
