• Thumbnail for Alexis Clairaut
    Britannica article "Clairault, Alexis Claude". Chronologie de la vie de Clairaut (1713–1765) O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexis Clairaut", MacTutor...
    17 KB (2,004 words) - 07:09, 21 August 2024
  • Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. It was named after French mathematician Alexis Claude Clairault by the Baudin expedition to Australia along the western coast of...
    3 KB (305 words) - 21:52, 29 October 2024
  • Lagrange differential equation. It is named after the French mathematician Alexis Clairaut, who introduced it in 1734. To solve Clairaut's equation, one differentiates...
    3 KB (541 words) - 16:30, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clairaut's theorem (gravity)
    gravitational field and centrifugal force. It was published in 1743 by Alexis Claude Clairaut in a treatise which synthesized physical and geodetic evidence...
    15 KB (1,767 words) - 08:54, 4 February 2024
  • theorem (or Clairaut's theorem on equality of mixed partials) named after Alexis Clairaut and Hermann Schwarz, states that for a function f : Ω → R {\displaystyle...
    34 KB (5,331 words) - 16:20, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicole-Reine Lepaute
    insisting that they could never have done the calculations without her, Clairault removed mentions of her from the book he published in 1760, Théorie du...
    21 KB (2,047 words) - 21:30, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1736 in Sweden
    scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders...
    2 KB (138 words) - 22:27, 8 October 2023