Welcome to the course blog for the Oxford first year Groups and Group Actions course (Hilary and Trinity Terms 2017). I hope that this will be a useful resource to accompany the lectures, problems sheets and tutorials. Please check back after each lecture for a new post. In addition, I have a course page with some useful information, and…
On June 10th 1829 the very first of now legendary annual boat races of Oxford and Cambridge on the river Thames took place. The race came about because two friends from Harrow School, Charles Wordsworth (nephew of the poet William Wordsworth), of Christ Church College, Oxford, and Charles Merrivale of St. John’s, Cambridge, met during the vacation in Cambridge, where Wordsworth’s father was master of Trinity. Wordsworth went rowing on the river Cam, and the two school fellows decided to set up a challenge.