Mathematician:William George Horner

Mathematician
British mathematician who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory.

Also wrote on optics. Inventor of the.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 9 June 1786 in Bristol, England
 * Died: 22 September 1837 in Bath, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Ruffini-Horner Method (independently of ) {also known as Horner's Method)
 * Horner's Rule

Publications

 * 1815: New and important combinations with the Camera Lucida
 * 1816: I. On Annuities. - II. Imaginary cube roots. - III. Roots of Binomials
 * 1816: Corrections of the paper inserted in the last number of the Annals, p. 279
 * 1817: Formulas for estimating the height of mountains
 * 1817: On cubic equations
 * 1817: Solution of the equation $\phi^n x = x$
 * 1817: On reversion of series, especially in connection with the equation $\phi \alpha^{-1} \phi \alpha x = x$