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William George Horner

British school master and mathematician (1786–1837)

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Lived 1786–1837, aged 51
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    1786–1837
    Aged 51
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Updated 2026-06-21

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.

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