Notes:

D'Alembert

(1) Born in Paris, November 16, 1717; died in Paris, October 29, 1783.

(2) S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire, chap. i, London, 1907.

(3) Opuscules mathematiques, 8 vols., Paris, 1761-1768.

(4) In the memoirs of the Berlin Academy, 1746 and other dates.

(5) Cantor, Geschichte, II, chap. 118.

(6) J. Bertrand, D'Alembert, Paris, 1889.