MA30237 Group Theory: Course Material

Lecturer: David Calderbank. Office: 4W 3.41. Email: d.m.j.calderbank@bath.ac.uk

Moodle Page: https://moodle.bath.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=55692

Contact: For questions about the unit please use the Moodle Queries and Discussion Forum. I will reply to questions there so that the whole class can see my response.

Past papers

• Note on past papers


• Paper 2019-20 with solutions and Open book mock
• Paper 2018-19 with solutions
• Paper 2017-18 with solutions
• Paper 2016-17 with solutions
• Paper 2015-16 with solutions

Interesting stuff!

• Galois' collected works
• Cayley's amazing 1854 paper in which he introduces the concept of an abstract group and does Sudoku! (But he does not state or prove Cayley's Theorem!)
  Pages 1-2 Pages 3-4 Pages 5-6 Pages 7-8
• The Sylow Theorems by L. Sylow with a modern explanation by R. Gow. H. Wielandts proof.

Biographies

• Lagrange (1736-1813)       Cauchy (1789-1857)       Abel (1802-1829)       Galois (1811-1832)        Cayley (1821-1895)        Sylow (1832-1918)       Jordan (1838-1922)        Klein (1849-1925)        Burnside (1852-1927)        Poincare (1854-1912)        Holder (1859-1937)        Feit (1930-2004)       Thompson (1932-)