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Alexis Clairaut

1713 - 1765

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Alexis Claude Clairaut (; French: [alɛksi klod klɛʁo]; 13 May 1713 – 17 May 1765) was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687. 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. In that context, Clairaut worked out a mathematical result now known as "Clairaut's theorem". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Clairaut is the 110th most popular mathematician (up from 121st in 2019), the 755th most popular biography from France (up from 882nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Mathematician.

Alexis Clairaut was a mathematician and astronomer who is most famous for his work on the shape of the Earth.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut ranks 110 out of 1,004. Before him are Adrien-Marie Legendre, Augustus De Morgan, Anthemius of Tralles, Émile Picard, Willebrord Snellius, and Paul Cohen. After him are Grigori Perelman, Ctesibius, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, George Green, Leonid Kantorovich, and Alexander Friedmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, Alexis Clairaut ranks 4. Before him are Denis Diderot, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, and Ferdinand VI of Spain. After him are Laurence Sterne, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Junípero Serra, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Johann Ludwig Krebs. Among people deceased in 1765, Alexis Clairaut ranks 4. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis, Dauphin of France, and Mikhail Lomonosov. After him are Philip, Duke of Parma, Muhammad bin Saud, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Clairaut ranks 755 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Nouvel (1945), Raoul Dufy (1877), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France (1290), Thomas Bangalter (1), and Arbogast (340). After him are Jacques Delors (1925), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Alaric II (458), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Émile Loubet (1838), and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Alexis Clairaut ranks 23. Before him are Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Émile Picard (1856). After him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), and Émile Borel (1871).

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