Jean d’Alembert

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encyclopedist human mathematician philosopher physicist

Jean d’Alembert was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for his foundational work in calculus, mechanics (including d’Alembert’s principle), and co-editing the Encyclopédie.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	encyclopedist ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physicist ⓘ
coEditorOf	Encyclopédie ⓘ
coEditorWith	Denis Diderot ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1717-11-16 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1783-10-29 ⓘ
educatedAt	Collège des Quatre-Nations ⓘ
familyName	Jean d’Alembert self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: d’Alembert
fieldOfWork	calculus ⓘ mathematics ⓘ mechanics ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ philosophy ⓘ physics ⓘ wave theory ⓘ
givenName	Jean ⓘ
hasHonorificTitle	Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française ⓘ
hasOccupation	mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physicist ⓘ writer ⓘ
influenced	Joseph-Louis Lagrange ⓘ Leonhard Euler ⓘ Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ
influencedBy	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ Isaac Newton ⓘ
knownFor	contributions to calculus ⓘ contributions to mechanics ⓘ Laplace operator ⓘ surface form: d’Alembert operator d’Alembert’s formula ⓘ d’Alembert’s principle ⓘ work on the wave equation ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
memberOf	Académie des Sciences ⓘ surface form: Académie des sciences Académie française ⓘ
movement	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ
nativeLanguage	French ⓘ
notableWork	Discours préliminaire de l’Encyclopédie ⓘ Encyclopédie ⓘ Traité de dynamique ⓘ d’Alembert’s principle ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Paris ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ
religion	deism ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Paris ⓘ