Education
City University of New New York New York University.
mathematician university professor
City University of New New York New York University.
His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming. Horn was born on Lower East Side, Manhattan. They would later move to Brooklyn where Horn spent most of his childhood, raised by his extended family.
Horn attended the City College of New York, and later, New York University where he earned a Master"s degree in mathematics.
He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in 1946. A year later, he started work at the University of California, where he stayed until his retirement in 1988.
He died in 2001 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles after eight years of battling prostate cancer.