Around the Wilson's theorem

Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki

Abstract


In this paper some known conditions and new congruences characterising prime numbers are given. Some of them are obtained by the generalised Wilson theorem given by Gauss. The elementary proof of this theorem is also presented.

Keywords


prime number, Wilson’s theorem, congruence

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