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13. Mai 2017 · Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713-1765) On May 13, 1713, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Claude Clairaut was born. Clairaut was one of the key figures in the expedition to Lapland that helped to confirm Newton’s theory for the figure of the Earth. [ 3] In that context, Clairaut worked out a mathematical result now known ...
Alexis Claude Clairaut (també conegut com a Clairault) (París, 3, 7 o 13 de maig de 1713 - 17 de maig de 1765) fou un matemàtic francès. Vida i obra [ modifica ] Nascut a París , on el seu pare era professor de matemàtiques, va ser considerat un nen prodigi .
Clairaut, Alexis-Claude. ( b. Paris, France, 7 May 1713; d. Paris, 17 May 1765), mathematics, mechanics, celestial mechanics, geodesy, optics. Clairaut’s father, Jean-Baptiste Clairaut, was a mathematics teacher in Paris and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy. His mother, Catherine Petit, bore some twenty children, few of whom ...
Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713–1765) was a French mathematician known especially for his work in celestial mechanics and geodesy. His seminal work Théorie de la figure de la terre (Theory of the shape of the Earth), published in 1743, confirmed the belief by Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens that the Earth is an oblate spheroid and contributed to the establishment of theoretical mechanics ...
Other articles where Alexis-Claude Clairaut is discussed: Clairaut’s equation: …18th-century French mathematician and physicist Alexis-Claude Clairaut, who devised it. In 1736, together with Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis, he took part in an expedition to Lapland that was undertaken for the purpose of estimating a degree of the meridian, and on his return he published his treatise Théorie de ...
8. März 2024 · Alexis-Claude Clairaut (* 3. Mai 1713 in Paris; † 17. Mai 1765 in Paris) war ein französischer Mathematiker, Geodät und Physiker.. Leben. Alexis-Claude Clairaut war das zweite von 20 Kindern des Mathematikers und Professors an der Pariser Universität Jean-Baptiste Clairaut. 1744 wurde er als auswärtiges Mitglied in die damalige Königlich Preußische Sozietät der Wissenschaften aufgenommen.
Alexis Claude Clairaut was born at Paris on May 13, 1713, and died there on May 17, 1765. He belongs to the small group of children who, though of exceptional precocity, survive and maintain their powers when grown up. As early as the age of twelve he wrote a memoir on four geometrical curves; but his first important work was a treatise on ...
