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Jean
le Rond d'Alembert
* 1717 in Paris
+ 1783 in Paris
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 principle, also known as the Lagrange–d'Alembert
principle,
is a statement of the fundamental classical laws of motion.
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