Clairaut's equation
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In mathematical analysis, Clairaut's equation (or the Clairaut equation) is a differential equation of the form
where is continuously differentiable. It is a particular case of the Lagrange differential equation. It is named after the French mathematician Alexis Clairaut, who introduced it in 1734.[1]