David C. Kelly is a professor
emeritus
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of
mathematics at
Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mo ...
in
Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst () is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,263, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county seat ...
. He holds an AB from
Princeton, an SM from
MIT, and an AM from
Dartmouth Dartmouth may refer to:
Places
* Dartmouth, Devon, England
** Dartmouth Harbour
* Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States
* Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
* Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia
Institutions
* Dartmouth College, Ivy League university i ...
; and has taught at
Oberlin College and
Talladega College. In 1971 he founded the
Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM), a six-week program for mathematically talented high school students, and directed the program for many years.
During his time at Princeton in the early 1960s, Kelly and fellow student
Michael Spivak
Michael David Spivak (25 May 19401 October 2020)Biographical sketch in Notices of the AMS', Vol. 32, 1985, p. 576. was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Per ...
created "
Yellow Pig's Day," an annual celebration of mathematics and the number 17. He continues to be involved in the organization of the holiday each year, commemorating the day with food, songs,
a reunion, and mathematics.
He is quite familiar with many of the properties of the number
17,
and gives a special lecture on the subject each summer.
External links
Faculty biography*
David C. Kelly at HampmediaHampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
References
Living people
Hampshire College faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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