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Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

1717 - 1783

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His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2024). Jean le Rond d'Alembert is the 19th most popular mathematician (up from 22nd in 2024), the 105th most popular biography from France (up from 134th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks #105 among 7,658 people in Pantheon born in France, inside the top 2% of that group.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 19 out of 1,010. Before him are Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, and Jacob Bernoulli. After him are Henri Poincaré, Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, and Évariste Galois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1717, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 3. Before him are Maria Theresa, and Pope Pius VI. After him are Mustafa III, Horace Walpole, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Peter III of Portugal, Johann Stamitz, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Marie Anne de Mailly, and David Garrick. Among people deceased in 1783, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 2. Before him is Leonhard Euler. After him are Capability Brown, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 105 out of 7,658. Before him are Louis Philippe I (1773), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), Louis XII of France (1462), Henry II of France (1519), and W. Somerset Maugham (1874). After him are Louis the Pious (778), Pope Urban V (1310), Pope Clement VI (1291), Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Poincaré (1854), and Pope John XXII (1244).

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Among Mathematicians In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 3. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), and Pierre de Fermat (1601). After him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

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