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Huy Nguyen MATH630 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2022	Great professor. Fills a lot of gaps in the text during his lectures. Kind and reasonable regarding exams. Tends to make the cutoff for material contained on the exam reasonable in that the cutoff will be material covered up to 1-2 weeks before the exam. Will also spend a lot of time in office hours with you answering questions and working through problems. Definitely one of the better analysis profs.
Wojciech Czaja MATH630 Anonymous 12/30/2021	He has high expectation for the class. I didn't like him at first as he came off as serious and intimidating. But as the course progressed I started to appreciate his philosophy and found him a rather charming professor. Also gave us candies for halloween. Homework was consisted of problems from the text. Exams were short and quick as long as one is familiar with all the results and counterexamples. There were many questions of the nature "does X theorem still hold if we drop the Y assumption", so make sure you know all the theorem statements by heart. Preparation for the final stressed me out - he made it clear that he'd assess our understanding of the big picture of all the convergence modes and function spaces. Miraculously the university switched covid policy and made our final optional just before the exam could take place. Czaja gave us a good deal regarding grades and I suspect few in the class actually took the final.
Wojciech Czaja MATH630 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/29/2021	Not sure if this helps since only one professor is teaching this class for the year, and there is no choice. He's knowledgeable and smart. He talks about the history of mathematics during lectures, which I consider rather rare. He's also helpful during office hours. The textbook is available to university students via the online library or the course elms site. He covers everything until the Radon-Nikodym theorem and L-p spaces. He usually covers L-p spaces but not the R-N theorem in the first semester. The course content is exactly the topics on the textbook not including some fringe materials on the book. His homework is hard but doable, just costs a huge amount of time. His exams are hard but the grading is lenient. Harder exam questions are similar to easier homework questions. He asks for counterexamples a lot, so better if you have a bank of counterexamples prepared so you don't need to come up with one during the exam. If the question is about proving or giving a counterexample to a statement, then a correct T/F gets 2/20, a counterexample gets 10/20, and with justification, you get 20/20. The proof questions are easier and I didn't get points off so no idea how he grades them. Sometimes hand-wavy justifications also get the points as long as the example is right, unless the justification is completely off.
Patrick Fitzpatrick MATH630 amercado 10/11/2014	Let me qualify this review: THE BEST EVER OF ALL TIME was Prof. Seymour Goldberg (who, tragically, is no longer with us). Today, the best in the Math department is Prof. Fitzpatrick. Rigorous and very clear. Very professional, he makes is clear, but does not dumb it down. No surprises on the exams. Sit up front in class, if you can.
Patrick Fitzpatrick MATH630 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/06/2010	Fitzpatrick is a terrific lecturer. His German accent is rarely a problem. He presents and motivates the theory well and is just fun to listen to. The tests were straightforward. The course went more slowly than other graduate courses, but we seem to have covered all the intended material. He seems to have something against abstracting too much, which can make some of the proofs more tedious than necessary. But on the whole his style is very good.

Huy Nguyen
MATH630

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2022

Great professor. Fills a lot of gaps in the text during his lectures. Kind and reasonable regarding exams. Tends to make the cutoff for material contained on the exam reasonable in that the cutoff will be material covered up to 1-2 weeks before the exam. Will also spend a lot of time in office hours with you answering questions and working through problems. Definitely one of the better analysis profs.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH630

Anonymous
12/30/2021

He has high expectation for the class. I didn't like him at first as he came off as serious and intimidating. But as the course progressed I started to appreciate his philosophy and found him a rather charming professor. Also gave us candies for halloween. Homework was consisted of problems from the text. Exams were short and quick as long as one is familiar with all the results and counterexamples. There were many questions of the nature "does X theorem still hold if we drop the Y assumption", so make sure you know all the theorem statements by heart. Preparation for the final stressed me out - he made it clear that he'd assess our understanding of the big picture of all the convergence modes and function spaces. Miraculously the university switched covid policy and made our final optional just before the exam could take place. Czaja gave us a good deal regarding grades and I suspect few in the class actually took the final.

Wojciech Czaja
MATH630

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/29/2021

Not sure if this helps since only one professor is teaching this class for the year, and there is no choice. He's knowledgeable and smart. He talks about the history of mathematics during lectures, which I consider rather rare. He's also helpful during office hours. The textbook is available to university students via the online library or the course elms site. He covers everything until the Radon-Nikodym theorem and L-p spaces. He usually covers L-p spaces but not the R-N theorem in the first semester. The course content is exactly the topics on the textbook not including some fringe materials on the book. His homework is hard but doable, just costs a huge amount of time. His exams are hard but the grading is lenient. Harder exam questions are similar to easier homework questions. He asks for counterexamples a lot, so better if you have a bank of counterexamples prepared so you don't need to come up with one during the exam. If the question is about proving or giving a counterexample to a statement, then a correct T/F gets 2/20, a counterexample gets 10/20, and with justification, you get 20/20. The proof questions are easier and I didn't get points off so no idea how he grades them. Sometimes hand-wavy justifications also get the points as long as the example is right, unless the justification is completely off.

Patrick Fitzpatrick
MATH630

amercado
10/11/2014

Let me qualify this review: THE BEST EVER OF ALL TIME was Prof. Seymour Goldberg (who, tragically, is no longer with us). Today, the best in the Math department is Prof. Fitzpatrick. Rigorous and very clear. Very professional, he makes is clear, but does not dumb it down. No surprises on the exams. Sit up front in class, if you can.

Patrick Fitzpatrick
MATH630

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/06/2010

Fitzpatrick is a terrific lecturer. His German accent is rarely a problem. He presents and motivates the theory well and is just fun to listen to. The tests were straightforward. The course went more slowly than other graduate courses, but we seem to have covered all the intended material. He seems to have something against abstracting too much, which can make some of the proofs more tedious than necessary. But on the whole his style is very good.

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