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- ↑ Choi, Rose (November 1, 2012). "AMS Fellows Named". Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
- ↑ C. Robin Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Reviews of The Ambient Metric: Andreas Cap, Zbl 1243.53004; Michael G. Eastwood, MR 2858236; Michael G. Eastwood, Bull. AMS, doi : 10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01435-6; Rod Gover, SIAM Rev., doi : 10.1137/130973478
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