Fields are exactly commutative division rings

A ring is a field iff it is a commutative division ring.
Fields are exactly commutative division rings

Fields are exactly commutative division rings: A ring RR is a if and only if it is a whose multiplication is commutative (equivalently, RR is a in which every nonzero element is invertible).

This lemma packages the usual equivalence of “commutative + all nonzero invertible” with the field axioms used throughout algebra and algebraic geometry.