TCD_talk_9th_Feb_2005.mws

• Assumptions, declaration
• Title of talk
• Abstract
• Some history: Wilson and Lagrange
• Initial engagement, and seeing the first light
• The alpha question became the alpha conjecture
• The (beautiful) cube-square relationship
• A diary entry, some emails, the inexplicable clarifies
• The Jacobi order 9 primes: two other quadratics
• You like quadratics? Here's 7 more
• Cube-square identities
• Main outstanding problem
• Some remarks about computation times
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