Mathematician:Alexis Claude Clairaut

Mathematician
French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist. Worked out the shape of the Earth.

Best known in mathematics for Clairaut's (differential) equation.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 7 May 1713, Paris, France
 * Died: 17 May 1765, Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Clairaut's Theorem
 * Clairaut's Differential Equation, sometimes called just Clairaut's Equation.
 * Clairaut's Relation

Publications

 * 1726: Quatre Problèmes sur de Nouvelles Courbes (at age 13)
 * 1731: Recherches sur les Courbes a Double Courbure
 * 1733: Sur Quelques Questions de Maximis et Minimis
 * 1741: Elements de Géometrie
 * 1743: Théorie de la Figure de la Terre, Tirée des Principes de l'Hydrostatique
 * 1749: Elements d'Algèbre (used for teaching in French schools for many years)
 * 1752: Théorie de la Lune

Also known as
Sometimes reported as de Clairault.