Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783) · France · Academics · Died at 65
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Something wrong?Co-edited the Encyclopédie with Diderot until 1759 - the sprawling Enlightenment project that tried to catalog all human knowledge. Beyond that editorial feat, he left his name on a wave equation and the formula that solves it.
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born 16 November 1717 and trained across mathematics, physics, philosophy, and music theory. He joined Denis Diderot to co-edit the Encyclopédie, steering one of the Enlightenment's most ambitious intellectual ventures until he stepped away in 1759. His technical legacy centers on the wave equation that carries his name and the formula he devised to solve it; in France, the fundamental theorem of algebra is also named in his honour. He died 29 October 1783, having threaded the age's twin ambitions: to organize knowledge and to pierce the mathematics beneath the natural world.
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