Clairaut's relation (differential geometry)

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Clairaut's relation, also known as Clairaut's theorem, is a fundamental result in differential geometry that relates the curvature of a surface to the derivatives of the surface's height function. Specifically, it applies to surfaces of revolution, which are surfaces generated by rotating a curve about an axis.

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