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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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    translated left and right with time at the speed c. This was derived by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Another way to arrive at this result is to factor the wave equation...
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  • d'Alembert may refer to: Jean le Rond d'Alembert the d'Alembert operator, named after the former d'Alembert's principle, also named after the above d'Alembert's...
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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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    painters' brush as much as it depended on me," he wrote to Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert in 1774. Furthermore, he said to the Marquis d’Argens: "There...
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  • centuries. He wrote biographies of William Rowan Hamilton and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert, and the relationship between science and the Age of Enlightenment...
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  • main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert on the topic of grammar. In 1772 he was named as the successor...
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    and included notable philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis, and Etienne de Condillac. However...
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  • d'Alembert's Dream (or The Dream of d'Alembert, French: Le Rêve de d'Alembert) is an ensemble of three philosophical dialogues authored by Denis Diderot...
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    It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the thought of...
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