# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-george-horner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:04:59.709Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-george-horner"
name: "William George Horner"
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description: "William George Horner was a British mathematician. Proficient in classics and 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."
tagline: "British school master and mathematician (1786–1837)"
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birthDate: "1786-06-09"
deathDate: "1837-09-22"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump