MATH 131A
Analysis
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B. Recommended: course 115A. Rigorous introduction to foundations of real analysis; real numbers, point set topology in Euclidean space, functions, continuity. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2019 - Madrid is the best professor I've ever taken, probably my favorite. He is really engaging and funny and occasionally roasts people during class. he is realllllly nice and laidback. You can tell he really cares about his students' learning and is very passionate about teaching. He's also really helpful and patient during office hours and makes sure that students fully understand everything there is to know. His midterms are slightly harder than the homework but I've heard he curves generously. Overall 10/10 I would take him again.
Winter 2019 - Madrid is the best professor I've ever taken, probably my favorite. He is really engaging and funny and occasionally roasts people during class. he is realllllly nice and laidback. You can tell he really cares about his students' learning and is very passionate about teaching. He's also really helpful and patient during office hours and makes sure that students fully understand everything there is to know. His midterms are slightly harder than the homework but I've heard he curves generously. Overall 10/10 I would take him again.
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Really disappointed, he makes me spend most of the time to study MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Workload is extremely heavy and takes me lots of time for finishing it. Paper is marked by his feeling and the grade can be quite out of expectation(usually much worse than expected). It is the course I have taken and got the poorest result, even though I spent most of the time for studying it!
Really disappointed, he makes me spend most of the time to study MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!! Workload is extremely heavy and takes me lots of time for finishing it. Paper is marked by his feeling and the grade can be quite out of expectation(usually much worse than expected). It is the course I have taken and got the poorest result, even though I spent most of the time for studying it!
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Fall 2021 - This review is for math 110a (she doesn't have a math 110a page for some reason). This was her first time teaching at UCLA and I think she did a pretty good job. I think she can be pretty quiet but I found her lectures to be straightforward. The grading scheme is scheme 1: 15% homework, 5% journal, 2 midterms (25% each), 30% final; scheme 2: 15% homework, 5% journal, highest of two midterms 35%, 45% final exam. The journals are free points, and we submit these every Sunday. The journal assignments is literally just to keep a list of definitions and theorems we learned from class and submit it, either by handwriting or typing them. These can be tedious but it's free points so there's nothing to complain about. There were 7 homework assignments, 2 dropped. These homework assignments were very short since she only assigned about 4-5 problems from the textbook. (2 problems being easy computation problems, 2 easy proof problems, and 1 medium difficulty proof problem). The exams are alright. She posts an exam review sheet and held a review session for each exam where she solves most of the problems on the review. Many of the exam problems are pretty similar as the review sheet problems so definitely study it a lot. The first exam was pretty long (6 questions) and many of us didn't finish. She listens to feedback so she made the other exams more manageable. I'd recommend this professor and I think her class is straightforward and not too difficult. I didn't study well so I could've done a lot better in this class.
Fall 2021 - This review is for math 110a (she doesn't have a math 110a page for some reason). This was her first time teaching at UCLA and I think she did a pretty good job. I think she can be pretty quiet but I found her lectures to be straightforward. The grading scheme is scheme 1: 15% homework, 5% journal, 2 midterms (25% each), 30% final; scheme 2: 15% homework, 5% journal, highest of two midterms 35%, 45% final exam. The journals are free points, and we submit these every Sunday. The journal assignments is literally just to keep a list of definitions and theorems we learned from class and submit it, either by handwriting or typing them. These can be tedious but it's free points so there's nothing to complain about. There were 7 homework assignments, 2 dropped. These homework assignments were very short since she only assigned about 4-5 problems from the textbook. (2 problems being easy computation problems, 2 easy proof problems, and 1 medium difficulty proof problem). The exams are alright. She posts an exam review sheet and held a review session for each exam where she solves most of the problems on the review. Many of the exam problems are pretty similar as the review sheet problems so definitely study it a lot. The first exam was pretty long (6 questions) and many of us didn't finish. She listens to feedback so she made the other exams more manageable. I'd recommend this professor and I think her class is straightforward and not too difficult. I didn't study well so I could've done a lot better in this class.
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Winter 2020 - I consistently scores 20/15 on homework, which meant answers 100% correct plus extra credit for neat, clear work. However the exams were graded on a completely different standard - answers which would have been worth full credit on homework were given half credit or less due to the professor's insanely strict expectations for what a proof is WHICH HE NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN CLASS. This guy is terrible, his class is a trap for people unable to read his mind. Unless you have the answer key while you're taking the test, you're screwed.
Winter 2020 - I consistently scores 20/15 on homework, which meant answers 100% correct plus extra credit for neat, clear work. However the exams were graded on a completely different standard - answers which would have been worth full credit on homework were given half credit or less due to the professor's insanely strict expectations for what a proof is WHICH HE NEVER EVEN MENTIONED IN CLASS. This guy is terrible, his class is a trap for people unable to read his mind. Unless you have the answer key while you're taking the test, you're screwed.
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