Leroy Milton Kelly, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Leroy Milton Kelly

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 08-May-1914

Date of Death: 21-Feb-2002

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Leroy Milton Kelly (8 May 1914 – 21 February 2002) was an American mathematician whose research primarily concerned combinatorial geometry.
In 1986 he settled a conjecture of Jean-Pierre Serre by proving that n points in complex 3-space, not all lying on a plane, determine an ordinary line—that is, a line containing only two of the n points.
He taught at Michigan State University. L.
M.
Kelly received his Ph.D.
at the University of Missouri in 1948, advised by Leonard Mascot Blumenthal.