Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to... Wikipedia
Born: November 16, 1717, Paris, France
Died: October 29, 1783 (age 65 years), Paris, France
Parents: Claudine Guérin de Tencin and Louis-Camus Destouches
Awards: ForMemRS (1748)