Alexis Clairault Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more