Alexis Clairaut | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-25

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00:00:49 1 Biography
00:00:58 1.1 Childhood and early life
00:01:55 1.2 Personal life and death
00:02:44 2 Mathematical and Scientific Works
00:02:54 2.1 The shape of the Earth
00:05:42 2.2 Geometry
00:06:51 2.3 Focus on astronomical motion
00:09:51 3 See also



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Alexis Claude Clairaut (French: [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".  He also tackled the gravitational three-body problem, being the first to obtain a satisfactory result for the apsidal precession of the Moon's orbit.  In mathematics he is also credited with Clairaut's equation and Clairaut's relation.