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Boyu Zhang MATH432 Expecting an A- Anonymous 08/23/2024	Boyu Zhang is a very passionate teacher and wants the best for his students. You will rarely meet another teacher who cares more for his students. He is passionate about math and teaching, and he always seeks to improve his teaching. However, I will admit that he is still inexperienced. He is a young professor, and he likely did not have much experience teaching before. As a result, he sometimes rushes or does not explain stuff clearly, and some lectures may leave you completely dumbfounded. Talk with him outside of class, ask him about math (doesn't have to be related to the class), go to his office hours, and he will take care of you. He is also fair with the curve and curves a good portion of the class to an A.
Christian Zickert MATH432 Anonymous 01/23/2022	He's great!! Lectures were entertaining and he's quite passionate about math. The class isn't easy but honestly the exams were very fair and never had crazy proofs or anything like that. Awesome class, nice prof, highly recommend if you're interested in this sort of material.
Harry Tamvakis MATH432 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2019	He goes very fast, and the homework is hard. But I think he is a good professor and he is usually always available as stated. You need to put in a lot of work to do well in the class. MATH432 has a reputation as one of the most difficult undergraduate classes and Tamvakis lives that up. Unlike most of the professors of previous, he chose to forego any discussion on the basics of algebraic topology for more specialized topics, like metric space completion and Arzela-Ascoli.
Sarah Yeakel MATH432 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/11/2018	Does a good job teaching complex material. Really good at drawing stuff for visual intuition. Sometimes moves pretty fast. Organized. Fair exams. Homework is on the hard side but it prepares you for exams.

Boyu Zhang
MATH432

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
08/23/2024

Boyu Zhang is a very passionate teacher and wants the best for his students. You will rarely meet another teacher who cares more for his students. He is passionate about math and teaching, and he always seeks to improve his teaching. However, I will admit that he is still inexperienced. He is a young professor, and he likely did not have much experience teaching before. As a result, he sometimes rushes or does not explain stuff clearly, and some lectures may leave you completely dumbfounded. Talk with him outside of class, ask him about math (doesn't have to be related to the class), go to his office hours, and he will take care of you. He is also fair with the curve and curves a good portion of the class to an A.

Christian Zickert
MATH432

Anonymous
01/23/2022

He's great!! Lectures were entertaining and he's quite passionate about math. The class isn't easy but honestly the exams were very fair and never had crazy proofs or anything like that. Awesome class, nice prof, highly recommend if you're interested in this sort of material.

Harry Tamvakis
MATH432

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/10/2019

He goes very fast, and the homework is hard. But I think he is a good professor and he is usually always available as stated. You need to put in a lot of work to do well in the class. MATH432 has a reputation as one of the most difficult undergraduate classes and Tamvakis lives that up. Unlike most of the professors of previous, he chose to forego any discussion on the basics of algebraic topology for more specialized topics, like metric space completion and Arzela-Ascoli.

Sarah Yeakel
MATH432

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/11/2018

Does a good job teaching complex material. Really good at drawing stuff for visual intuition. Sometimes moves pretty fast. Organized. Fair exams. Homework is on the hard side but it prepares you for exams.

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