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Name:	Alexis-Claude Clairaut
Birth Date:	1713
Death Date:	1765
Nationality:	French
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	geometer

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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 Newton in his analysis of the effects of gravity and...

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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 journey to Lapland. In it, he discussed the curvature of the Earth, and thus...

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Alexis Clairault

About 3 pages (916 words) in 2 products