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- ↑ Prize regulations on the LMS website Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "London Mathematical Society Prizes Awarded" (pdf). Mathematics People. AMS. November 1999. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
- ↑ "Prizes". The University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
- ↑ List of LMS prize winners, LMS website, accessed July 2011
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