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- 1 2 Church, Phil (24 May 2002), "Nancy Cole", Mathematics History, Syracuse University, retrieved 2021-04-12
- 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008), Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, History of Mathematics, vol. 34 (1st ed.), American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society, pp. 158–159, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 ; see also extended biography on pp. 133–134 of the Supplementary Material at the AMS web site for the book.
- ↑ Nancy Cole at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Historic Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2021-04-11
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