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French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717–1783)

"d'Alembert" redirects here. For other uses, see d'Alembert (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Delambre.

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert^[a] (DAL-əm-BAIR;^[1]French:[ʒɑ̃batistləʁɔ̃dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 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.^[2]D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him.^[3][4][5] The wave equation is sometimes referred to as d'Alembert's equation, and the fundamental theorem of algebra is named after d'Alembert in French.

Early years

Born in Paris, d'Alembert was the natural son of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery offic