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.