# Jean le Rond d'Alembert [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LECOMTE, Félix]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 150 cm ## Commentary Jean le Rond d'Alembert \(1717-1783\) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's method for the wave equation is named after him. ## Related artworks - [Astronomy and Geography]() - [Charles Rollin]() - [Marie Antoinette]() - [Oedipus et Phorbas]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()