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- ↑ John Robert Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ "John Taylor Named Hazel Barnes Prize Winner" (Press release). University of Colorado, Boulder. 1999-05-12. Archived from the original on 2010-12-15.
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