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    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/ˌdæləmˈbɛər/ DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 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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  • 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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    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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  • -\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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    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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  • Rond Stovall (born 1973), former Major League Baseball player De Wereld Rond, the fifth studio album by the Flemish band K3 Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)...
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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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    1749) was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor...
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    dynamics, d'Alembert's paradox (or the hydrodynamic paradox) is a paradox discovered in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert. D'Alembert proved...
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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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  • (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades) Jean le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717–1783) Some literature: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire...
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    the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, first published shortly after du Châtelet's death. She is also...
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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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    and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
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    alphabetically arranged Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The full title was L'Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières...
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    between 1751 and 1772 in 35 volumes, it was compiled by Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and a team of 150 others. The Encyclopédie helped in spreading...
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  • ordinary differential equation, named after the French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The equation reads as y = x f ( p ) + g ( p ) {\displaystyle y=xf(p)+g(p)}...
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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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  • 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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    taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist...
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    disseminated knowledge of the art throughout Europe. Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert published a thorough overview of the art with illustrations of...
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  • first section, recursively titled "D'Alembert's Principle", is a historical fiction depicting Jean le Rond D'Alembert, featuring his unrequited love for...
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    Nicolas de Condorcet, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond D'Alembert, Olympe de Gouges, Vincent de Gournay, D'Holbach, Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, Claude-Adrien...
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  • Swedish astronomer (died 1783) November 16 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (died 1783) Pierre Le Roy, French clockmaker (died 1785) Wilhelm...
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  • Inviscid flow was further analyzed by various mathematicians (Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson)...
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    classification of plants in his Classes Plantarum 1738. In 1752 Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot produced a figurative system of human knowledge...
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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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