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- ↑ Investigator profile, University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Mathematical Investigations, retrieved 2018-08-04
- ↑ Graciela Boente at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Graciela Lina Boente Boente, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2018-08-04
- ↑ "Premian a científicos destacados", La Nacion, December 9, 2008
- ↑ Memoria 2008, Argentine National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, retrieved 2018-08-04
- ↑ IMS Fellows 2013 (PDF), Institute of Mathematical Statistics , retrieved 2018-08-04
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