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- ↑ Albert Marden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Albert Marden". IAS (ias.edu). 9 December 2019.
- ↑ Marden, Albert (1974), "The geometry of finitely generated kleinian groups", Annals of Mathematics , Second Series, 99 (3): 383–462, doi:10.2307/1971059, ISSN 0003-486X, JSTOR 1971059, MR 0349992, Zbl 0282.30014
- ↑ Canary, Richard D. (2010). "Marden's Tameness Conjecture: history and applications". arXiv: 1008.0118 [math.GT].
- ↑ "Review of Outer Circles. An Introduction to Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds by Albert Marden". European Mathematical Society. 15 June 2011.
- ↑ Das, Tushar (1 July 2017). "Review of Hyperbolic Manifolds: An Introduction in 2 and 3 Dimensions by Albert Marden". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
