Alexis Claude Clairaut (French: [alɛksi klod klɛʁo]; 13 May 1713 – 17 May 1765) was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent...

Clairaut may refer to: Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician Clairaut's equation Clairaut's theorem Clairaut (crater), a crater on the Moon This...

It is named after the French mathematician Alexis Clairaut, who introduced it in 1734. To solve Clairaut's equation, one differentiates with respect to...

mathematical analysis, Schwarz's theorem (or Clairaut's theorem on equality of mixed partials) named after Alexis Clairaut and Hermann Schwarz, states that for...

works in the history of science. The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: "The famous book of Mathematical Principles of...

gravitational field and centrifugal force. It was published in 1743 by Alexis Claude Clairaut in a treatise which synthesized physical and geodetic evidence that...

14, Alexis Clairaut announced to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris his prediction of the date at which Halley's comet would return: Clairaut (January...

Lepaute, was a French astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated the date of the return of Halley's Comet...

on the motion of the Moon around Earth. Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Alexis Clairaut, who developed a longstanding rivalry, both attempted to analyze the...

1698–1758 (France & Peru) Pierre de Maupertuis 1698–1759 (France) Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765 (France) Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728–1777 (France) Roger...

in 1637. The distance formula itself was first published in 1731 by Alexis Clairaut. Because of this formula, Euclidean distance is also sometimes called...

which has a dense metallic core. In 1737 Alexis Clairaut studied the case of density varying with depth. Clairaut's theorem states that the variation of the...

The first reference to the nature of microscopic forces is found in Alexis Clairaut's work Théorie de la figure de la Terre, published in Paris in 1743...

considered one of the masterpieces in the history of science". (in French) Alexis Clairaut, "Du systeme du monde, dans les principes de la gravitation universelle"...

of the simple pendulum and gravitational acceleration. According to Alexis Clairaut, the study of variations in gravitational acceleration was a way to...

one-month error to 13 April) by a team of three French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. The confirmation of the...

1816 translation of Lacroix's Differential and Integral Calculus. Alexis Clairaut was the first to think of polar coordinates in three dimensions, and...

Bullialdus John Flamsteed Isaac Newton Edmond Halley Leonhard Euler Alexis Clairaut Jean d'Alembert Tobias Mayer Johann Tobias Bürg Pierre-Simon Laplace...

thought was eventually vindicated. Kuhn cites, as an example, that Alexis Clairaut, in 1750, was able to account accurately for the precession of the...

as the first entry in his catalogue of comet-like objects; in 1757, Alexis Clairaut reexamined the calculations of Edmund Halley and predicted the return...

generalized forces and D'Alembert's principle 1747 - D'Alembert and Alexis Clairaut publish first approximate solutions to the three-body problem 1749...

Maupertuis, Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Henri François d'Aguesseau, Alexis Clairaut. Front row, right to left: Montesquieu, Sophie d'Houdetot, Claude Joseph...

Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Alexis Clairaut, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Hugo Glydén, Anders Lindstedt, George William...

was chosen in the same year to accompany Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut on their geodetical expedition for measuring a meridian arc of approximately...

trigonometric interpolation when the points have even symmetry, was treated by Alexis Clairaut in 1754. In this case the solution is equivalent to a discrete cosine...

history of Halley's Comet whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Clairaut and Nicole-Reine Lepaute to calculate. In 1762 Delisle resigned the...

Bernoulli's prodigy students, Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut. Frederick the Great of Prussia, who re-founded the Academy of Sciences...

harmonious system, the scattered developments of contributors such as Alexis Clairaut, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Leonhard Euler, and...

analytic geometry and plane curves, Alexis Clairaut began the study of space curves at just the age of 16. In his book Clairaut introduced the notion of tangent...

Earth's Shape from Newton to Clairaut. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-38541-1. Clairaut, Alexis; Colson, John (1737). "An...