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- ↑ Sidney Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Graham, S. (1981), "On Linnik's constant", Acta Arithmetica, 39 (2): 163–179, doi: 10.4064/aa-39-2-163-179 , MR 0639625 .
