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Clairaut, Alexis Claude
Alexis Clairaut
Alexis Claude Clairaut
(; 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
.
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