Definition:Wilson Prime/Historical Note

Historical Note on Wilson Prime

The third Wilson prime was discovered by Karl Goldberg in $1953$, as a result of a computer search in which all numbers up to $10 \, 000$ were tested.

This was one of the first examples of a problem in number theory being attacked by a computer.

Subsequent searches have reached $2 \times 10^{13}$ without finding a $4$th such prime.

Sources

• 1953: Karl Goldberg: A table of Wilson quotients and the third Wilson prime (J. London Math. Soc. Vol. 28, no. 2: pp. 252 – 256)

• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $563$

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Wilson Prime." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/WilsonPrime.html