William George Horner British Mathematician
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| First Name |
William
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| Middle Name |
George
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| Last Name |
Horner
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1785
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| Birthplace |
Bristol
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| Died |
22nd September, 1837
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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William George Horner (9 June 1786 – 22 September 1837) was a British mathematician. Proficient in classics; mathematics, he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper, who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics. His contribution to approximation theory is honoured in the designation Horner's method, in particular respect of a paper in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1819. The modern invention of the zoetrope, under the name Daedaleum in 1834, has been attributed to him.
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