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William George Horner

1786 - 1837

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William George Horner is the 393rd most popular mathematician (down from 293rd in 2019), the 1,945th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,407th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William George Horner ranks 393 out of 1,004. Before him are Lothar Collatz, Igor Shafarevich, Richard Courant, Rudolf Lipschitz, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, and Carl Ludwig Siegel. After him are Helmut Hasse, Qin Jiushao, Theon of Smyrna, Thomas Fincke, Philippe de La Hire, and Bhāskara I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, William George Horner ranks 26. Before him are Kunisada, Chief Seattle, Ludwig Börne, Nathaniel Wallich, Julius Jacob von Haynau, and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. After him are Gaspar del Bufalo, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Nicolás Bravo, Winfield Scott, Marc Seguin, and Joachim Lelewel. Among people deceased in 1837, William George Horner ranks 28. Before him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Marguerite Gérard, François-Xavier Fabre, John Latham, Mariano José de Larra, and Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Gaspar del Bufalo, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Alexander Bestuzhev, and Agustín Eyzaguirre.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William George Horner ranks 1,945 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Michael Scot (1175), Ine of Wessex (700), Matthew Arnold (1822), Edward FitzGerald (1809), and Rick Astley (1966). After him are Bertram Ramsay (1883), Thomas Gray (1716), John O. Westwood (1805), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), James Herbert Brennan (1940), and Dick Francis (1920).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, William George Horner ranks 42. Before him are Edward Waring (1736), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), George Peacock (1791), John Graunt (1620), Thomas Heath (1861), and Thomas Simpson (1710). After him are Peter Barlow (1776), Edmund Gunter (1581), Roger Cotes (1682), Thomas Henderson (1798), William Jones (1675), and Mary Cartwright (1900).

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