Boyer, Carl B. (1991). „The Arabic Hegemony”. A History of Mathematics (Second изд.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. стр. 234. ISBN0-471-54397-7. „Note the omission of Diophantus and Pappus, authors who evidently were not at first known in Arabia, although the Diophantine Arithmetica became familiar before the end of the tenth century.”
Boyer, Carl B. (1991). „The Arabic Hegemony”. A History of Mathematics (Second изд.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. стр. 239. ISBN0-471-54397-7. „Abu'l-Wefa was a capable algebraist as well as a trigonometer. He commented on al-Khwarizmi's Algebra and translated from Greek one of the last great classics, the Arithmetica of Diophantus.”
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Hogendijk, Jan P. (1985). „Review of J. Sesiano, Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica”. Приступљено 6. 7. 2014. „Only six of the thirteen books of the Arithmetica of Diophantus (ca. A.D. 250) are extant in Greek. The remaining books were believed to be lost, until the recent discovery of a medieval Arabic translation of four of the remaining books in a manuscript in the Shrine Library in Meshed in Iran (see the catalogue [Gulchin-i Ma'ani 1971-1972, pp. 235-236]. The manuscript was discovered in 1968 by F. Sezgin).”