High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The theorem was first discovered by Bhaskara I, and later explained by Ibn al-Haytham (known as Alhazen in Medieval Europe) circa 1000 AD, but it is named after John Wilson (a student of the English mathematician Edward Waring) who stated it in the 18th century. Waring announced the theorem in 1770, although neither he nor Wilson could prove it. Lagrange gave the first proof in 1773. There is evidence that Leibniz was also aware of the result a century earlier, but he never published it.

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