Description: Relationship between division and reciprocal. Theorem I.9 of Apostol p. 18. (Contributed by NM, 9-Feb-1995)
| Ref | Expression | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hypotheses | divclz.1 | |- A e. CC | |
| divclz.2 | |- B e. CC | ||
| divcl.3 | |- B =/= 0 | ||
| Assertion | divreci | |- ( A / B ) = ( A x. ( 1 / B ) ) | 
| Step | Hyp | Ref | Expression | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divclz.1 | |- A e. CC | |
| 2 | divclz.2 | |- B e. CC | |
| 3 | divcl.3 | |- B =/= 0 | |
| 4 | 1 2 | divreczi | |- ( B =/= 0 -> ( A / B ) = ( A x. ( 1 / B ) ) ) | 
| 5 | 3 4 | ax-mp | |- ( A / B ) = ( A x. ( 1 / B ) ) |