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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 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 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 808,947 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Jean le Rond d'Alembert is the 21st most popular mathematician (down from 20th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from France (down from 126th in 2019) and the 5th 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 21 out of 823. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Henri Poincaré, and Diophantus. After him are Joseph Fourier, Hero of Alexandria, Luca Pacioli, David Hilbert, Évariste Galois, and Pope Sylvester II.

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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, Johann Stamitz, Peter III of Portugal, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Marie Anne de Mailly, Louis François, Prince of Conti, Horace Walpole, and Ebrahim Afshar. Among people deceased in 1783, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 2. Before him is Leonhard Euler. After him are Grigory Orlov, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, Antonio Soler, Yosa Buson, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, and Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 139 out of 6,011. Before him are Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Louis XII of France (1462), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Charles VIII of France (1470), and Jean Cocteau (1889). After him are Joseph Fourier (1768), Louis XI of France (1423), Georges Braque (1882), Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Joachim Murat (1767), and François Mitterrand (1916).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jean le Rond d'Alembert ranks 5. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), and Henri Poincaré (1854). After him are Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Sophie Germain (1776), and Gaspard Monge (1746).

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