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    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/dæləmˈbɛər/ dal-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛːʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician...
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    physicist and mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Italian-French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange. D'Alembert's principle generalizes the principle...
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    Diderot and d'Alembert, was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis...
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  • June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and only Diderot from 1765 to 1772. The composition of the 17...
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  • Ratio test (redirect from D'Alembert's test)
    n is large. The test was first published by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and is sometimes known as d'Alembert's ratio test or as the Cauchy ratio test. The...
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  • -\infty <x<\infty ,\,\,t>0} It is named after the mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who derived it in 1747 as a solution to the problem of a vibrating...
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  • The operator is named after French mathematician and physicist Jean le Rond d'Alembert. In Minkowski space, in standard coordinates (t, x, y, z), it has...
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    of the Sun and planets on the motion of the Moon around Earth. Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Alexis Clairaut, who developed a longstanding rivalry, both...
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    Denis Diderot (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot...
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    precision. The theory of Daniel Bernoulli was opposed also by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. When generalizing the theory of pendulums of Jacob Bernoulli he...
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