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===Other proofs===
*{{citation|first=Terry |last=Lawson|title=Topology: a geometric approach|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-851597-9|year=2003}}, similar to Morse theoretic proof using sliding of attached handles
*{{citation | title = Conway's ZIP Proof | first1 = George K. | last1 = Francis | first2 = Jeffrey R. | last2 = Weeks | journal = [[American Mathematical Monthly]] | volume = 106 | pages = 393 | number = 5 | date = May 1999 | doi = 10.2307/2589143 | url = http://new.math.uiuc.edu/zipproof/zipproof.pdf | jstor = 2589143 }}; page discussing the paper: [http://new.math.uiuc.edu/zipproof/ On Conway's ZIP Proof]
*{{citation|last=Thomassen|first=Carsten|title= The Jordan-Schönflies theorem and the classification of surfaces|journal= Amer. Math. Monthly|volume= 99|issue=2|year=1992|
pages= 116–13|doi=10.2307/2324180|jstor=2324180}}, short elementary proof using spanning graphs
*{{citation|first=V.V.|last=Prasolov|title= Elements of combinatorial and differential topology|series= Graduate Studies in Mathematics|volume= 74|publisher= American Mathematical Society|year=2006|isbn= 0821838091}}, contains short account of Thomassen's proof