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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexis Clairaut has received more than 178,129 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexis Clairaut is the 121st most popular mathematician (up from 132nd in 2019), the 882nd most popular biography from France (up from 981st in 2019) and the 25th 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 121 out of 1,004. Before him are Hippocrates of Chios, Meton of Athens, Theon of Alexandria, Leonid Kantorovich, Josef Stefan, and Nicomachus. After him are Christopher Clavius, Zu Chongzhi, Hermann Weyl, Herbert A. Hauptman, Marian Rejewski, and Ferdinand von Lindemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1713, Alexis Clairaut ranks 5. Before him are Denis Diderot, Ferdinand VI of Spain, Laurence Sterne, and Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. After him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Junípero Serra, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Johann Ludwig Krebs, and Guillaume Thomas François Raynal. Among people deceased in 1765, Alexis Clairaut ranks 6. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Louis, Dauphin of France, Mikhail Lomonosov, Muhammad bin Saud, and Philip, Duke of Parma. After him are Giovanni Paolo Panini, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Charles-André van Loo, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Clairaut ranks 882 out of 6,770. Before him are Martin Schongauer (1450), Lucien Laurent (1907), Eleanor of Provence (1223), Edmond Rostand (1868), François Cevert (1944), and Jean Rochefort (1930). After him are Henriette of France (1727), Louis Vuitton (1821), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Georges Dumézil (1898), Renée of France (1510), and Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Alexis Clairaut ranks 25. Before him are Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), and Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788). After him are Étienne Bézout (1730), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), and Michel Rolle (1652).

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