Arthur Black (mathematician)
- Arthur Black (mathematician)
Arthur Black (1851-1893) was a mathematician, student of William Clifford at University College London, and brother to Clementina Black, the social reformer and author, and Constance Garnett, the translator whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics first introduced them on a wide basis to the English public. [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=1588&inst_id=13]
He died young, having committed suicide and having murdered his wife and child.
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