reduced 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 I've also looked at