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- ↑ John Little at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ John Little, The greatest of MIT's great faculty from spectrum.mit.edu (summer 2006)
- ↑ John D.C. Little honored with Buck Weaver Award for outstanding contributions to marketing
