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

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

In classical differential geometry, Clairaut's relation, named after Alexis Claude de Clairaut, is a formula that characterizes the great circle paths...

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

by Johann Hieronymus Schröter in 1779. The planet also offered Alexis Claude de Clairaut an opportunity to work his considerable mathematical skills when...

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

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...

Charnoz Jean Chazy Olivier Chesneau Henri Chrétien Jean-Pierre Christin Alexis Clairaut Jérôme Eugène Coggia Françoise Combes Janine Connes Eugène Cosserat...

March 15 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (baptized December 28; died 1762) May 3 – Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician (died...

mathematics by Jean-Baptiste Clairaut, and became a friend of Jean-Baptiste's son, Alexis-Claude Clairaut, (Alexis Clairaut), who was a brilliant young...

particularly that with military applications. He began to study under Alexis-Claude Clairaut. During the War of the Austrian Succession he was injured and he...

expedition was led by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, with the scientists included being Alexis Claude Clairaut, Charles Le Monnier and Charles Etienne...

mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Jérome Lalande and Nicole Reine Lepaute, have – for the first time – predicted the date Madame du Coudray publishes Abrégé de l'art...

huge controversy among French scientists. Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Pierre Charles Le Monnier traveled to Lapland, where they were...

doi:10.2307/2708824. JSTOR 2708824. Clairaut, Alexis-Claude (1747). "Du système du Monde, Dans Les Principes de la gravitation universelle". {{cite journal}}:...

Malesherbes, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, Henri François d'Aguesseau, Alexis Clairaut. Front row, right...

computationally and conceptually easier to deal with than a vector function. Alexis Clairaut had first suggested the idea in 1743 while working on a similar problem...

capillary action. See, for example, Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713–1765) Theorie de la Figure de la Terre tirée des Principes de l'Hydrostatique [Theory of the...

to name a few, the mathematician and astronomer and physicist Alexis Claude Clairaut and Jean-Antoine Nollet. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in...

Zamolodchikov Alexey Andreevich Anselm Alexey Kavokin Alexis-Marie de Rochon Alexis Clairaut Alexis Thérèse Petit Alf Adams Alfons Bühl Alfred-Marie Liénard...

published in 1743, Alexis Claude Clairaut synthesized the relationships existing between gravity and the shape of the Earth. Clairaut exposed there his...

Chwolson–Einstein ring – Orest Khvolson (and Albert Einstein) Clairaut's relation, theorem – Alexis Claude Clairaut Claisen condensation, rearrangement – Rainer Ludwig...

different locations on Earth. In 1743 Alexis Claude Clairaut created the first hydrostatic model of the Earth, Clairaut's theorem, which allowed the ellipticity...

function "any expression made up of a variable and some constants." Alexis Claude Clairaut (in approximately 1734) and Leonhard Euler introduced the familiar...

Cichus (1257–1327) WGPSN Clairaut 47°50′S 13°52′E / 47.84°S 13.86°E / -47.84; 13.86 (Clairaut) 76.89 1935 Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713–1765) WGPSN Clark...

Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787) Johann Samuel König (1712–1757) Alexis Clairaut (1713–1765) Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) Franz Aepinus (1724–1802)...

processing and imaging; Maurice Ewing Medal (SEG) Alexis Clairaut (French, 1713–1765) – proved Clairaut's theorem and calculated the ellipticity of the Earth...

centuries, the study of the three-body problem by Leonhard Euler, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert led to more accurate predictions about...

Euler, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Alexis-Claude Clairaut, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Laplace's five-volume...

2007-08-22. Retrieved 2012-12-04. "Amateure am Sternenhimmel". Kleinplanetenseite.de. Retrieved 2012-12-04. "(9720) Ulfbirgitta". Astro.uu.se. Archived from the...