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Jean-le-Rond D'Alembert (1717 - 1783)  - http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/DAlembert/RouseBall/RB_DAlembert.html  An excerpt from W.W. Rouse Ball's 1908 book, A Short History of Mathematics. Emphasizes D'Alembert's work in calculus and fluid dynamics.  MacTutor History of Mathematics: D'Alembert  - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html  Biography of this noted French thinker by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robinson. Includes links to related thinkers in the mathematical tradition.  Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot  - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/dalembert.html  D'Alembert's foreword to this French Enlightenment classic, translated by Richard Hooker.