Leroy Milton Kelly

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Name Leroy Kelly Role Mathematician		Education University of Missouri

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.

L. M. Kelly received his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri in 1948, advised by Leonard Mascot Blumenthal.

Selected publications

Kelly, L. M. (1986), "A resolution of the Sylvester–Gallai problem of J. P. Serre", Discrete and Computational Geometry, 1 (1): 101–104, doi:10.1007/BF02187687 .

Kelly, L. M.; Moser, W. O. J. (1958), "On the number of ordinary lines determined by n points", Canad. J. Math., 10: 210–219, doi:10.4153/CJM-1958-024-6 .

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