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.

Biography of this noted French thinker by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robinson. Includes links to related thinkers in the mathematical tradition.

D'Alembert's foreword to this French Enlightenment classic, translated by Richard Hooker.