British school master and mathematician (1786–1837)
For other people named William Horner, see William Horner (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the British biblical scholar George William Horner.
William George Horner (9 June 1786 – 22 September 1837) 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.[1][2][3]
Horner died comparatively young, before the establishment of specialist, regular scientific periodicals. So, the way others have written about him has tended to diverge, sometimes markedly, from his own prolific, if dispersed, record of publications and the contemporary reception of them.
^Zoetrope. EarlyCinema.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-11.
^Glossary – Z. Wernernekes.de. Retrieved on 2011-10-11.
^Philosophical magazine. Taylor & Francis. 1834. p. 36.
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