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Jean le Rond d'Alembert

1717 - 1783

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Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert ( DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 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 Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean le Rond d'Alembert has received more than 861,033 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Jean le Rond d'Alembert is the 22nd most popular mathematician (down from 21st in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from France (up from 139th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Mathematician.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician and physicist. He is most famous for his work on differential calculus and for his contributions to the Encyclopedie.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 22 out of 1,004. Before him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Henri Poincaré, Joseph Fourier, and Hero of Alexandria. After him are Luca Pacioli, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, John Forbes Nash Jr., Évariste Galois, and Apollonius of Perga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1717, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 2. Before him is Maria Theresa. After him are Pope Pius VI, Mustafa III, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Peter III of Portugal, Johann Stamitz, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Marie Anne de Mailly, Louis François, Prince of Conti, Horace Walpole, and David Garrick. Among people deceased in 1783, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 2. Before him is Leonhard Euler. After him are Étienne Bézout, Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Benedict Joseph Labre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 134 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Saint Sebastian (300), Joseph Fourier (1768), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Albert Schweitzer (1875). After him are Jacques Lacan (1901), Charles V of France (1338), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), and Joachim Murat (1767).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 6. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Joseph Fourier (1768). After him are Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), and Marin Mersenne (1588).

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