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- ↑ Marie Rognes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ The Young Academy of Norway to be established 29 October 2015, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters , retrieved 2020-03-13
- ↑ Marie E. Rognes (in Norwegian), Young Academy of Norway, retrieved 2020-03-13
- ↑ James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , retrieved 2020-03-13
- ↑ Awards & Honors, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters , retrieved 2020-03-13
