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- ↑ Karen A. Yeats, Canada Research Chairs, 29 November 2012, retrieved 2018-02-28
- ↑ "2003 Morgan Prize" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 51 (4): 438–439, April 2004
- ↑ Karen Yeats at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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