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- ↑ Jenkins, David (2008-07-01). "Anthropology, Mathematics, Kinship: A Tribute to the Anthropologist Per Hage and His Work with the Mathematician Frank Harary". UCLA: Human Complex Systems.
- ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths HAGE, PER". The New York Times. 2004-08-01. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-05-11.
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