Rashed, Roshdi (2002-09-11). Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science (на језику: енглески). Routledge. стр. 385. ISBN9781134977246. „The famous mathematician Diophantus compiled a paper in which he set out deliberately to prove the theorem of Euclid in an algebraic way. This forced him to an understanding of the first arithmetical functions and to a full preparation which led him to state for the first time the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.”
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A. Goksel Agargun and E. Mehmet Özkan. „A Historical Survey of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic”(PDF). Historia Mathematica: 209. „One could say that Euclid takes the first step on the way to the existence of prime factorization, and Diophantus takes the final step by actually proving the existence of a finite prime factorization in his first proposition.”