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- Garrett Birkhoff (1988). "Mathematics at Harvard, 1836–1944". In Peter Duren; Richard A. Askey; Uta C. Merzbach (eds.). A Century of Mathematics in America — Part II (PDF). History of Mathematics. Vol. 2. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. pp. 3–58. ISBN 0-8218-0130-9.
- Haverford College Bulletin, Vol. 35–36, 1936–1938
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- ↑ Birkhoff, Whitman (1949), p. 136
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- ↑ Haverford Bulletin p. 125 (= vol 35., p. 99)
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- ↑ Haverford Bulletin p. 433
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- ↑ Birkhoff (1988), p. 50
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- ↑ Record at Harvard library
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- ↑ Bulletin of the AMS, Jul 1947, p. 715
- ↑ Notices of the AMS Vol.42, No.12, Dec.1995, p. 1555
