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Roohollah Ebrahimian MATH299B Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/21/2024	Dr. Ebrahimian is an awesome professor! He's kind, understanding, and is very, VERY knowledgeable about math. You can tell that he cares about his students and loves seeing them improve. It helps that the class is small, so you get to know him better than if it were a larger class. As for the course, it was pretty easy to do well in. It's just once a week. You just have to go up to the board sometimes and give your attempt at a solution for the problem sets (it doesn't need to be complete, just enough for it to be useful). So, you need to spend time outside of class doing problems from the problem sets. You don't need to know all about each topic, but you should know up to linear algebra/diff eq, and proofwriting (you don't need to have taken a course that involves that, just study proofwriting the summer before the class if you are unfamiliar). Also introduce yourself to number theory. At the beginning of each class, someone presents for 30 minutes about the topic for that week. You have to do one presentation, so I'd recommend looking at the list of topics and choosing which presentation you want to do early, so that you don't have to present about something you aren't familiar enough with. Download his "Putnam Guide" from his website, which contains useful info + problems about each topic: https://blog.umd.edu/ebrahimian/teaching/ The course definitely helped me improve for Putnam. I definitely wasn't as knowledgeable in math as other students there and am just taking the Putnam for fun, but I genuinely felt a lot of improvement over the course of the semester and I'd definitely recommend this course if you are interested. It's not very difficult (the course I mean, not Putnam itself haha) and you'll have fun if you enjoy doing these types of problems.