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- ↑ "Rachel Roberts", Our people, Washington University in St. Louis Arts & Sciences, retrieved 2019-11-02
- ↑ Rachel Roberts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Constructing Taut Foliations MR page, American Mathematical Society, MR 2688244
