Wilson's theorem. #
This file contains a proof of Wilson's theorem.
The heavy lifting is mostly done by the previous wilsons_lemma,
but here we also prove the other logical direction.
This could be generalized to similar results about finite abelian groups.
References #
TODO #
- Give
wilsons_lemmaa descriptive name.
@[simp]
Wilson's Lemma: the product of 1, ..., p-1 is -1 modulo p.
@[simp]
For n ≠ 1, (n-1)! is congruent to -1 modulo n only if n is prime.
Wilson's Theorem: For n ≠ 1, (n-1)! is congruent to -1 modulo n iff n is prime.