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

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Biography of Alexis-Claude Clairaut
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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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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Alexie at best
08/13/2000: 447 words, approx. 2 pages
Alexie at best, worst in latest collection By ERIC BRAZIL San Francisco Examiner Sunday, August 13, 2000 At age 33, with two novels, two short-story collections, nine books of poetry and a screenplay to his credit, Sherman Alexie is not...
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Alexi Worth
05/01/2003: 649 words, approx. 2 pages
ALEXI WORTH BILL MAYNES GALLERY "Gerberman at Large," Alexi Worth's recent short series of paintings, follows the romantic trajectory of a character who, being balding, bespectacled, and middle-aged, looks a little like me, though maybe somewhat more feckless (I would like to...
 


 

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