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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Jean le Rond D'Alembert
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Alembert, Jean Le Rond D
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D', a French mathematician and philosopher of the empirical school, was born in Paris, Nov. 16, 1717, and died in the same city Oct. 29, 1783. He was the illegitimate child of the Chevalier Destouches-Canon, and of the celebrated Madame de Tencin, sister of the archbishop of Lyons. His unnatural parents exposed him, soon after his birth, near the church of St. Jean le Rond, and hence his Christian name. After he became eminent, his father recognised him and gave him a pension. In childhood he displayed great precocity of talent, and in 1730 he entered the College Mazarin, where he had a Jansenist tutor, studied mathematics and philosophy, and wrote a commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. After leaving college he attempted to study medicine, and afterward law; but finding his turn for mathematics all-powerful, he determined to live on his small pension of 1200 francs a year and devote himself to free studies. At twenty-three he was
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Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
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French mathematician, scientist, philosopher and writer born in Paris on 16 November 1717. Son of the form of an aristocrat, his mother left the church of Saint Jean-le Rond at birth. That's why they called him. Although the child was picked up and raised by a glassmaker and his wife, his father paid him the studies.
When D’Alembert began to become famous, his true mother appeared to him and wanted to conquer her, but the boy gave him pride in refusing saying “My mother is the woman of the glassmaker”.
It can be said that he studied his studies almost alone, as he studied theology, medicine, law and mathematics on his own. He was approved at the age of twenty-three at the Academy of Sciences and dealt with gravitational theory (especially the precession of equinoxes)