MATH 131B
Analysis
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 33B, 115A, 131A. Derivatives, Riemann integral, sequences and series of functions, power series, Fourier series. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2022 - Dr. Madrid is very friendly, helpful, and generous with the office hours! The class is very hard, but if we attend the discussion and office hours regularly it helps a lot! Our TA Steven Truong is awesome as well. I suggest everyone who take 131B to go to Steven's website and review 131B materials since test-related concepts are on there. Tests are all online, hard, and require some creativity. There are 2 midterms (24h) and 1 Final (48h). Overall, Dr. Madrid makes this class a lot more tolerable!!
Winter 2022 - Dr. Madrid is very friendly, helpful, and generous with the office hours! The class is very hard, but if we attend the discussion and office hours regularly it helps a lot! Our TA Steven Truong is awesome as well. I suggest everyone who take 131B to go to Steven's website and review 131B materials since test-related concepts are on there. Tests are all online, hard, and require some creativity. There are 2 midterms (24h) and 1 Final (48h). Overall, Dr. Madrid makes this class a lot more tolerable!!
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Spring 2018 - Good professor in my opinion. Would have him again for another class. He was very helpful, nice, and approachable in office hours. The class was mostly very difficult because real analysis is a very rigorous topic. As far as individual professors for this course go, I have heard of there existing (lol, a quantifier. math joke) worse professors for this course such that they give unreasonable homeworks. His homeworks were very reasonable yet challenging given the nature of the course. His two midterms (I'm writing this before the final) were doable but not necessarily easy. The questions just weren't what I predicted based on the the homeworks and course material but the questions would absolutely fall under the category of what you would consider fair game (so just be sure to study comprehensively as opposed to focusing on certain topics). The average for my class on the first midterm was actually very high, but he explained this was atypical as it was not as high last time he taught the course (a.k.a., my particular class was probably just smarter). I would not necessarily suggest taking him for lower division courses however; he is a very intelligent professor and his math skills manifest in his lectures to the extent that lower division students likely cannot keep up with him. Anyway, I really liked the course. Not a bad idea to take Manion.
Spring 2018 - Good professor in my opinion. Would have him again for another class. He was very helpful, nice, and approachable in office hours. The class was mostly very difficult because real analysis is a very rigorous topic. As far as individual professors for this course go, I have heard of there existing (lol, a quantifier. math joke) worse professors for this course such that they give unreasonable homeworks. His homeworks were very reasonable yet challenging given the nature of the course. His two midterms (I'm writing this before the final) were doable but not necessarily easy. The questions just weren't what I predicted based on the the homeworks and course material but the questions would absolutely fall under the category of what you would consider fair game (so just be sure to study comprehensively as opposed to focusing on certain topics). The average for my class on the first midterm was actually very high, but he explained this was atypical as it was not as high last time he taught the course (a.k.a., my particular class was probably just smarter). I would not necessarily suggest taking him for lower division courses however; he is a very intelligent professor and his math skills manifest in his lectures to the extent that lower division students likely cannot keep up with him. Anyway, I really liked the course. Not a bad idea to take Manion.
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Spring 2017 - Avoiding him would make your life easy and happy :). The worst professor in the UCLA. The exams are soooooooooooo hard. The average for the final is 13/ 33? I remember correctly. To be honest, it should be 13/46, because there are extra 13 points as bonus points. However, it is completely impossible to get these bonus points and it turns out that no one get it because the highest score is 29. His homework is very very hard, and I spent more than 10 hours each week to finish it. The worst thing I felt is that lectures, homework and exams are three completely independent parts. They are not correlate with each other. If you can understand lecture, you can still have no idea about how to do the homework. If you finally understand the homework, you still have no idea about how to do the exam. It further turns out that he is not a good teacher, but just torments his students. He is not a good lecturer, because he speaks very weird English, and cannot explain concepts well. What really made me angry is that before the submitting the teaching evaluation, he tried to make his students happy, and even sent email saying that he will give everyone good grade and give easy final exam. However, after teaching evaluation, he began to not replying email, gave unreasonably difficult exam, and did not allow students to look at the exams if students need a regrade by giving excuse that he would travel out of LA. He is a liar and I am really mad at his morality. Such a bad person should not be stay at UCLA.
Spring 2017 - Avoiding him would make your life easy and happy :). The worst professor in the UCLA. The exams are soooooooooooo hard. The average for the final is 13/ 33? I remember correctly. To be honest, it should be 13/46, because there are extra 13 points as bonus points. However, it is completely impossible to get these bonus points and it turns out that no one get it because the highest score is 29. His homework is very very hard, and I spent more than 10 hours each week to finish it. The worst thing I felt is that lectures, homework and exams are three completely independent parts. They are not correlate with each other. If you can understand lecture, you can still have no idea about how to do the homework. If you finally understand the homework, you still have no idea about how to do the exam. It further turns out that he is not a good teacher, but just torments his students. He is not a good lecturer, because he speaks very weird English, and cannot explain concepts well. What really made me angry is that before the submitting the teaching evaluation, he tried to make his students happy, and even sent email saying that he will give everyone good grade and give easy final exam. However, after teaching evaluation, he began to not replying email, gave unreasonably difficult exam, and did not allow students to look at the exams if students need a regrade by giving excuse that he would travel out of LA. He is a liar and I am really mad at his morality. Such a bad person should not be stay at UCLA.
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