Today, October 14th, 8.59am, Andrew Wiles Building, Oxford Mathematics. It may have been raining for 40 days and 40 nights, but it's our favourite day of the year, the first day of a new academic year.
So here are our students arriving for lectures, accompanied by the soundtrack of first year students talking about their first three lectures which they attended this morning: Geometry, Analysis 1 and Computational Mathematics. These three courses are accompanied by five others over the course of the eight-week term: Introduction to University Mathematics, Introductory Calculus, Introduction to Complex Numbers, Linear Algebra 1 and Probability.