Category:Definitions/Named Definitions/Clairaut
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This category contains results named for Alexis Claude Clairaut.
French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist. Worked out the shape of the Earth.
Best known in mathematics for Clairaut's (differential) equation.
Credited with inventing the technique (independently of Leonhard Paul Euler and Alexis Fontaine des Bertins) of the use of integrating factors.
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