Alexis-Claude Clairaut
1713-1765
French Mathematician
Alexis-Claude Clairaut is best remembered for his book Théorie de la figure de la terre, an outgrowth of studies he made during a 1736 journe...
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A child prodigy, Alexis Claude Clairaut studied calculus at age 10, wrote mathematical papers at 13, and published a mathematical work on the gauche curve at age 18. Clairaut surpassed even Isaac Newt...
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Alexis-Claude Clairaut
Alexis-Claude Clairaut