Jean Le Rond D'Alembert 1717 - 1783
- occupation:
- Mathematician, Mechanician, Music theorist, Philosopher, Physicist
- Nationality:
- French
- born in:
- Paris, Ville de Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Until 1759 - co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.
Devised D'Alembert's formula (also known as d'Alembert's equation) for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
