As the weakest student entered the classroom Brian Shin realized he realized the student was about to drop. He asked the student “are you not studying enough because you are failing or are you failing because you are not studying enough”. The student who had left it all behind responded equally “If you were unable to understand any of the concepts, would you drop?” Brian Shin responded “Nah I’d learn”. He knew it was time to take action, and said “Stand Proud you are capable”. Unbeknownst to the student, Brian Shin activated his domain expansion “extended office hours”. As the overwhelming intensity of the linear algebra crushed the student, he could only ask one thing, “how?” Brian Shin responded “You failed to consider two things: one, always bet on the professor. And two, throughout heaven and earth, i alone am the diagonalizable one”

If Brian Shin has a million supporters, I AM ONE OF THEM. If Brian Shin has a thousand supporters, I AM ONE OF THEM. If Brian Shin has one supporter, I AM THAT SUPPORTER. If he has no supporters, THEN I AM DEAD. IF THE WORLD IS AGAINST BRIAN SHIN, I AM AGAINST THE WORLD.

Lectures are structured, professor is responsive, exams are similar to hw, hws are a bit long but fair, grading is fair, nice guy, nice class.

Take this man's class. He assigns a short, easy homework and a short, easy quiz once a week. His midterms and finals use questions that are extremely similar to the homework questions he assigns, and his lectures are closely based on the textbook. He also skipped a bunch of sections in the textbook and told us we wouldn't have to worry about them on the exams, which took a huge load off of us when studying.

Shin is the goat. Had him for both 32A and 33A, and man did he improve in those 2 quarters in between the two. He is down to earth, easy to approach, funny, and takes baby steps to make sure to understand the material. He is extremely helpful during office hours, he's willing to do nearly the entire homework on the white board in those 2 hours if you wanted to check your work. True/False Questions are tricky but as long as you read the textbook you should be in the clear because you will not find all the theorems he throws at you in the lectures just warning you that. I made that mistake on the first midterm and bombed it, but I really stepped it up for the next 2. He is also such a goated teacher whenever I see a partial derivative or matrix, I'm pretty confident in my abilities to do it thinks to this goat making other classes like Econ 11, 32B, Stats 20, Math 33B and probably many other classes so much easier. There are points this schoolyear where I walked out of an exam for an entirely different unrelated class but the intersections of 32A or 33A push me enough over the line to get the grade I want. This goat help me be requalified for the stats major after I was weeded out because of 32b. He watered down all the previous Calculus so we'll especially 32a that I am pretty confident in my calc 3 abilities. I want to take his 115a someday even tho it legit has nothing to do with my major!! So if you want a teacher with pretty good coattail effects take this goat!!

Shin is definitely one o fthe better math professors at UCLA. his midterms would reflect what we did on the homework. he doesn't give practice midterms/finals but if you do all the homework problems he assigns (including the ones you don't turn in) you should be fine. some T/F could be challenging so I would make sure to understand the material conceptually. overall goated

I genuinely don't think I learned anything

Dudes the GOAT. Take with this professor if you can. If you aren't super strong in math and need this class, then this is the professor for you. Basically just do the homework problems and really understand them and you should do well. They prepare you conceptually for what you need to know and you should thrive. ONCE AGAIN, TAKE 33A WITH SHIN!!!!!!!!!

GOAT. Absolute GOAT. When I say I almost gave up on math and took this class as a last hurrah, and Shin absolutely saved me and made me fall in love w math again with how clear he taughtttt I love this guy sm who is this divaaa. I will say he fled to England for a little bit which threw us off but he explained things quickly yet concisely! Nothing crazy but still like compared to other ahem math 31b classes I love this class so so much. I would major in basic linear algebra if I could fr

MIA ZENDER IS THE BEST TA I'VE EVER HAD. Actual valley girl baddie like if every math TA explained shit like her I would get a PHD in math bc I learned sm in her discussions it felt like a friend was explaining to me

Midterms were fair asf and pretty light, final was kinda rough for all of us but still fair. Take this class!!!

Honestly, now that it's the end of the term, it seems like our assignments were graded by 2 different people a lot of the time. In fact, I think the TA was grading the HW and the professor was trying to grade our exams most times, so it felt like when one topic/assignment was graded well, the corresponding exam ones should have also been graded similarly but weren't. This was otherwise a tough class in general, I mean it has a reputation as being one of the hardest classes but it's also required if you want to major in math at all.

The professor was really, really nice and tried to be as helpful as humanely possible but unfortunately, I cannot recommend taking this class with him based on this term. He made himself available when he could, but he was also just absent a lot of the term with some other stuff he was dealing with, so we had a substitute as well for some weeks, sometimes unexpectedly. Sometimes the HW wouldn't be posted on time, and our assignments were not graded in time for us to use them for studying. When we did finally get them back, some of the comments left on the exams/HW were also kind of...abrasive? They were not kind, constructive, or really explanatory; they also felt a little judgy rather than aiming to help guide you in a better direction or deeper understanding. There was no clear answer or response for what we did wrong per se, just what didn't make sense to whoever was grading or what we didn't manage to prove/complete. I'm sure some other students had a great time and received helpful feedback, but in my case, it was not helpful and actually makes me not ever want to really try this class again if I can help it, or any class similar to it. The HW and exams were long, the lectures were sometimes not paced well, and there was definitely room for concept simplification or improvements to give us the actual building blocks to better writing proofs. The textbook was unhelpful for me, personally.