Background
He was the eldest son of David Black of Brighton, a solicitor and coroner, and brother to Clementina Black, the social reformer and author, and Constance Garnett.
He was the eldest son of David Black of Brighton, a solicitor and coroner, and brother to Clementina Black, the social reformer and author, and Constance Garnett.
University College London.
He became a student of William Clifford at University College London. Black"s work remained unpublished at the time of his suicide. Micaiah John Muller Hill saw to the publication of a paper on a general Gaussian integral.
Notebooks survive, including attempts to formulate a quantitative theory of evolution.
They also contain a derivation of the chi-squared distribution. A long manuscript, Algebra of Animal Evolution, was sent to Karl Pearson, who then transmitted it to Francis Galton.
lieutenant is now lost. Pearson and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon thought highly of the work, but Galton had reservations.