Jean le Rond d'Alembert
1717 CE–1783 CE · Paris
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert ( DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. His most famous achievements include the wave equation, also known as d'Alembert's equation, and D'Alembert's formula for solving said equation. In French, fundamental theorem of algebra is named in his honour.
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Paris, the capital of France, was a centre of European Buddhist scholarship. The Sri Lankan scholar-monk Walpola Rahula taught and researched there, associated with the Sorbonne, during the period in which he engaged with Western academic study of Buddhism.
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