• William George Horner (9 June 1786 – 22 September 1837) was a British mathematician. Proficient in classics and mathematics, he was a schoolmaster, headmaster...
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  • William Horner may refer to: William George Horner, British mathematician William Horner (cricketer), English cricketer Billy Horner, English footballer...
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  • computer science, Horner's method (or Horner's scheme) is an algorithm for polynomial evaluation. Although named after William George Horner, this method is...
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  • horner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Horner is an English and German surname that derives from the traditional occupation horner, meaning horn-worker...
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  • Somerset - son of above Red Horner (George Reginald Horner, 1909–2005), Canadian ice hockey player George William Horner (1849–1930), translator of Coptic...
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  • George William Horner (1849–1930) was a British biblical scholar, an editor of the text of the New Testament in the dialects of the Coptic language. In...
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    (published in London as "phantasmascope") British mathematician William George Horner thought up a cylindrical variation and published details about its...
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    two Academy Awards win, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot,...
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  • director. He was the father of Academy Award-winning film composer James Horner. Horner was born in the town of Holice, Bohemia, Czech Republic (formerly the...
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  • included John George Children, Edward Daniel Clarke, Philip Crampton, Alexander Crichton, James Cumming, John Herapath, William George Horner, Thomas Dick...
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    William George Horner also suggested a cylindrical variation of Plateau's phénakisticope, but he did not manage to publish a working version. William...
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    Chinese algebraists discovered numerical evaluation (Horner's method, re-established by William George Horner in the 19th century) of arbitrary-degree algebraic...
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    to the dishonest actions of Thomas Horner in the Tudor period. The song’s most common lyrics are: Little Jack Horner Sat in the corner, Eating his Christmas...
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  • the methods given many centuries later by [Paolo] Ruffini and [William George] Horner." He is also the first to use the decimal point notation in arithmetic...
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    Champion 2012". IQA. Retrieved 4 July 2012.  Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1891). "William George Horner". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography...
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  • Tom Horn is a 1980 American Western film directed by William Wiard and starring Steve McQueen as the legendary lawman, outlaw and gunfighter Tom Horn. It...
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  • Bungalow and The Other Fellow. In 1896, Horner purchased the Whitehall Review, becoming its editor-proprietor. Horner was a member of the executive and finance...
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    pp. 151–53. Horner, p. 46. Morgan, pp. 117–19. Williams, p. 50. Horner, pp. 86–87. Williams, p. 117. Gould, p. 7. Williams, p. 122. Horner, pp. 92–96....
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  • This is a list of compositions by James Horner. 1981 A Few Days in Weasel Creek 1981 Angel Dusted 1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino 1982 Rascals and Robbers:...
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  • 1797) 1 August – Walter Geikie, painter (born 1795) 22 September – William George Horner, mathematician (born 1786) 7 December – Robert Nicoll, poet (born...
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    Frances Jane Horner, Lady Horner OBE JP (née Graham; 28 March 1854 – 1 March 1940) was a British hostess, member of the Souls social group, and a patron...
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  • William Allen Horning (November 9, 1904 – March 2, 1959) was an American art director and two-time Academy Award winner. He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    John's Cyril Benoni Holman Hunt, entomologist and agriculturist William George Horner, mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle, pioneering but controversial cosmologist...
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    William Lee (c. 1750 – 1810) was an American slave and personal assistant of George Washington. He was the only one of Washington's slaves who was freed...
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  • 17 April – William King, physician and philanthropist (died 1865) 9 May – James Foster, ironmaster (died 1853) 9 June – William George Horner, mathematician...
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    islands Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve – Protected area in Chile Cape Horner – Captain of a sailing ship which has sailed around Cape Horn Cape Leeuwin –...
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    Catherine Middleton. They have three children: George, Charlotte and Louis. After university, William trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst...
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  • the Wittig-Horner reaction using phosphonate-stabilized carbanions, now called the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction or HWE reaction or Horner-Wittig reaction...
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    geologist and educational reformer. He was the younger brother of Francis Horner. Horner was a founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh, now Heriot-Watt University...
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    The Country Wife (category Plays by William Wycherley)
    Horner averts the danger, joining forces with his more sophisticated lovers to persuade the jealous Pinchwife to at least pretend to believe Horner impotent...
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