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  1. 'Biography,' http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1476363?c=people
  2. Brendan McKay at the Mathematics Genealogy Project https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=35951
  3. 'McKay, Brendan Damien (1951 - ),' in Encyclopedia of Australian Science. http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004017b.htm
  4. Pontifex Praeteritorum, Reading List: Graph Isomorphism The Quantum Pontiff (blog) 4 August 4, 2010 http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=4148
  5. Brendan D. McKay, Ian M. Wanless, 'On the number of Latin squares,' Annaals of Combinatorics 9 (2009) pp.335-344. https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2101
  6. Siemion Fajtlowicz (ed.), Graphs and Discovery: DIMACS Working Group, Computer-generated Conjectures from Graph Theoretical and Chemical Databases, American Mathematical Soc., 2005 p.x. https://books.google.com/books?id=DGiRaIqjzJ8C&pg=PR10
  7. McKay, Brendan D.; Miller, Mirka; Širáň, Jozef (1998), "A note on large graphs of diameter two and given maximum degree", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 74 (1): 110–118, doi:10.1006/jctb.1998.1828  https://dx.doi.org/10.1006%2Fjctb.1998.1828
  8. Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg, 'Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,' Statistical Science, Vol. 9 (1994) 429-438.
  9. Brendan McKay, Dror Bar-Natan, Maya Bar-Hillel, Gil Kalai, 'SOLVING THE BIBLE CODE PUZZLE,' Statistical Science, Vol. 14 (1999) 150-173. http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/codes/statsci/StatSci.pdf
  10. Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Penguin, 2014 pp.99-101. https://books.google.com/books?id=2k9KAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT311
  11. 'Equidistant Letter Sequences in Tolstoy's War and Peace.' http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/codes/WNP/Rebuttal.pdf
  12. Sharon Begley, 'Seek And Ye Shall Find,' The Daily Beast 8 June 1997. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1997/06/08/seek-and-ye-shall-find.html
  13. "Botschaften des Allmächtigen oder zurechtgeschusterte Daten?". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 18 August 2004. http://www.nzz.ch/2004/08/18/ft/article9PRR2.html. 
  14. Gérald Bronner, Belief and Misbelief Asymmetry on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, 2016 pp.50-51. https://books.google.com/books?id=2qotCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51
  15. Persi Diaconis, Ronald L. Graham, Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks, Princeton University Press 2011 p.43.'Brendan McKay came from Australia. He is a great combinatorialist who has achieved world-wide fame outside mathematics for his definite debunking of the so-called Bible codes' https://books.google.com/books?id=CS2S5l2FN34C&pg=PA43
  16. H. J. Gans.. "A Primer on the Torah Codes Controversy for Laymen (part 1)". aish.com. http://www.aish.com/seminars/discovery/Codes/Primer/primer1.htm. 
  17. "Analysis of the "Gans" Committee Report". http://ratio.huji.ac.il/dp/dp_365.pdf. 
  18. David Barnett and Efraim Karsh (2011). "Azzam's Genocidal Threat". Middle East Quarterly, 18 (4) pp. 85–88. http://www.meforum.org/3082/azzam-genocide-threat
  19. Tom Segev, '"Makings of History / The Blind Misleading the Blind," Haaretz 21 October 2011 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/the-makings-of-history-the-blind-misleading-the-blind-1.391260
  20. Efraim Karsh, "Haaretz: The Paper for Thinking People?",' Algemeiner 18 December 2011. http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/12/18/haaretz-the-paper-for-thinking-people/
  21. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=McKay. 
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