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- ↑ Harold P. Boas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 Boas, Harold P. (2006). "Reflections on the Arbelos". American Mathematical Monthly . 113 (3): 236–249. doi:10.2307/27641891. JSTOR 27641891.
- ↑ "1995 Bergman Trust Prize Awarded" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 42 (7): 778–779, 1995
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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