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 zoetrope.

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 Paolo Ruffini) {also known as Horner's Method)
• Horner's Rule

Results named for William George Horner can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for William George Horner can be found here.

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 $\phi \alpha^{-1} \phi \alpha x = x$

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William George Horner": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Horner's method
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Horner's method: 2.
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Horner's method: 2.