# d'Alembert's formula

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The general solution to the one-dimensional wave equation u_tt-c^(2u_)xx=0,,u(x,0)=g(x),,u_t(x,0)=h(x), for -∞0.

## Etymology
Named after the French physicist and mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who derived it in 1747.

## Source
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