Britannica article "Clairault, Alexis Claude". Chronologie de la vie de Clairaut (1713–1765) O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexis Clairaut", MacTutor...
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Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin. It was named after French mathematician Alexis Claude Clairault by the French expedition of 1801–1803 along the western coast of...
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Clairaut's equation (redirect from Clairault's equation)
Lagrange differential equation. It is named after the French mathematician Alexis Clairaut, who introduced it in 1734. To solve Clairaut's equation, one differentiates...
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Clairaut's theorem (gravity) (redirect from Clairault's theorem)
gravitational field and centrifugal force. It was published in 1743 by Alexis Claude Clairaut in a treatise which synthesized physical and geodetic evidence...
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Symmetry of second derivatives (redirect from Clairault's constant)
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...
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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...
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scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders...
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