{{short description|Genevan mathematician (1749–1811)}} {{Distinguish|John Trembley|Jean Tremblay}} '''Jean Trembley''' (April 13, 1749 – September 18, 1811), born at Geneva and died in Le Mas-d'Agenais, was a Genevan<ref name=HDS>[https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/015915/2014-02-25/ Jean Trembley], in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. </ref> mathematician who contributed to the development of differential equations, finite differences, and the calculus of probabilities. He was also active in philosophy, astronomy and psychology.
==Biography== Nephew of the naturalist Abraham Trembley, Jean Trembley first studied law in Geneva, before turning to astronomy under the direction of Jacques-André Mallet, director of the Geneva Observatory. He also traveled in the Alps with Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and made with him his doctoral dissertation on the theory of generation (1767). In it, he advocated the views of Charles Bonnet, whose disciple he always pretended to be in the fields of philosophy and psychology.<ref> Fernando Vidal, « Psychologie empirique et méthodologie des sciences au siècle des Lumières. L'exemple de Jean Trembley », "Archives des Sciences", 57, 2004, pp. 15-35</ref>
He made part of his career in Berlin, where he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Science and Letters.
He published 30 articles in the ''Mémoires de l'Académie de Berlin'' and a few others in Bode's ''Jahrbuch'' and in other periodicals.
He was a correspondent of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1784), later Institute of France (1804),{{cn|date=July 2019}} an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Russia in St. Petersburg (1793),{{cn|date=July 2019}} and a member of the Berlin Academy of Prussia (1794; honorary member in 1807).<ref name=HDS /> He was corrispondent of the Turin Academy of Sciences.
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