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The professor is female like the other comment said. The class was pretty easy for me. I barely used the textbook and only then for practice problems. The homeworks are short. There are quizzes, two midterms, and a final that were pretty straightforward. There were only a few difficult problems. Overall, the online lectures were pretty dry and boring but the professor does answer questions well.
I took her for both MATH 33A and 33B and I'd sum up her class as this:
- if you wanna get an easy A and don't mind a bit of self-studying, take her. her homework and quizzes are literally textbook questions, and you can honestly double check answers with an online linear algebra calculator. I completed most homeworks in <1 hour.
- if you actually want to learn linear algebra, don't take her. there's literally 0 benefit of attending class. she sucks at answering questions, just writes down a bunch of irrelevant theorems during class, and doesn't really explain much of how to answer textbook questions. she posts notes (from a different professor) on her class website, just go over that and you'll be good to go.
That being said, as someone who isn't a hardcore CS or engineering major, this class was definitely more difficult than expected simply because the only math classes I had taken before were the LS 30 series and AP Calc from high school... so while the other reviews say this class is crazy easy, it's only crazy easy if you have a solid math background, beware! Still doable though as long as you put in some effort!
Honestly, I only attended a few of her lectures before realizing I could just teach myself from the lecture notes. I found the lectures to be fine, but the notes just made it a lot easier to teach myself and work the examples. There were homeworks and weekly quizzes that were pretty short and pretty easy. 24 hour exams which were also pretty easy, except for the final which was considerably more difficult than the rest but not too bad. I highly recommend her, the workload was light and I still feel like I learned the material decently well.
This class is very well organized and the notes Professor Wang provides are a super helpful outline of all the material basically explaining every possible case with any given problem. This class is very straight forward and it was very clear what was expected from students. Professor Wang was very knowledgable about material and definitely made it easy to succeed in the class.
33B with Prof Wang is definitely an extremely easy class, but you really don't learn anything. She doesn't give any intuition whatsoever, but rather puts a bunch of information on the table for you to jot down.
Extremely easy professor. Did not go to any lectures. The professor's typed notes are sufficient to learning the course content. Make sure to do your quizzes, as they are easy to forget about and are worth a lot.
I really recommend taking 33a before this class (its not a prereq for some reason but 33b uses a lot of linear algebra) and going to discussion. My TA (Stepan M.) was the GOAT, he covered this entire class in less time than the professor and it was much easier to follow and he spent the rest of the classes reviewing concepts and answering questions. Alternatively if your TA isn't incredible like Stepan, the text book is surprisingly good and you can learn all the content from it, her class notes are really good as well (or so I hear). However like everyone else says the lectures are kinda useless and confusing and the class is really easy.
Everything you've heard is more or less true. She is clearly brilliant but her lectures are just mumbling and she doesn't post notes (very adamantly doesn't post them). Short, easy exams but the key is having a good TA so ask around about them. Our TA, Van Rooy was amazing and I hope I have her as a TA again. Overall easy to pass (with an A no less) but you don't walk away with a very strong understanding of the material.
Super easy class. The tests are really simple and the homework load is very light. I studied for pretty much the entire course content the day before the final and passed easily. Never attended a lecture. Would highly recommend the 3blue1brown video series about linear algebra because I think it teaches the concepts much better than the professor and is easier to follow than the textbook.
The professor is female like the other comment said. The class was pretty easy for me. I barely used the textbook and only then for practice problems. The homeworks are short. There are quizzes, two midterms, and a final that were pretty straightforward. There were only a few difficult problems. Overall, the online lectures were pretty dry and boring but the professor does answer questions well.
I took her for both MATH 33A and 33B and I'd sum up her class as this:
- if you wanna get an easy A and don't mind a bit of self-studying, take her. her homework and quizzes are literally textbook questions, and you can honestly double check answers with an online linear algebra calculator. I completed most homeworks in <1 hour.
- if you actually want to learn linear algebra, don't take her. there's literally 0 benefit of attending class. she sucks at answering questions, just writes down a bunch of irrelevant theorems during class, and doesn't really explain much of how to answer textbook questions. she posts notes (from a different professor) on her class website, just go over that and you'll be good to go.
That being said, as someone who isn't a hardcore CS or engineering major, this class was definitely more difficult than expected simply because the only math classes I had taken before were the LS 30 series and AP Calc from high school... so while the other reviews say this class is crazy easy, it's only crazy easy if you have a solid math background, beware! Still doable though as long as you put in some effort!
Honestly, I only attended a few of her lectures before realizing I could just teach myself from the lecture notes. I found the lectures to be fine, but the notes just made it a lot easier to teach myself and work the examples. There were homeworks and weekly quizzes that were pretty short and pretty easy. 24 hour exams which were also pretty easy, except for the final which was considerably more difficult than the rest but not too bad. I highly recommend her, the workload was light and I still feel like I learned the material decently well.
This class is very well organized and the notes Professor Wang provides are a super helpful outline of all the material basically explaining every possible case with any given problem. This class is very straight forward and it was very clear what was expected from students. Professor Wang was very knowledgable about material and definitely made it easy to succeed in the class.
33B with Prof Wang is definitely an extremely easy class, but you really don't learn anything. She doesn't give any intuition whatsoever, but rather puts a bunch of information on the table for you to jot down.
Extremely easy professor. Did not go to any lectures. The professor's typed notes are sufficient to learning the course content. Make sure to do your quizzes, as they are easy to forget about and are worth a lot.
I really recommend taking 33a before this class (its not a prereq for some reason but 33b uses a lot of linear algebra) and going to discussion. My TA (Stepan M.) was the GOAT, he covered this entire class in less time than the professor and it was much easier to follow and he spent the rest of the classes reviewing concepts and answering questions. Alternatively if your TA isn't incredible like Stepan, the text book is surprisingly good and you can learn all the content from it, her class notes are really good as well (or so I hear). However like everyone else says the lectures are kinda useless and confusing and the class is really easy.
Everything you've heard is more or less true. She is clearly brilliant but her lectures are just mumbling and she doesn't post notes (very adamantly doesn't post them). Short, easy exams but the key is having a good TA so ask around about them. Our TA, Van Rooy was amazing and I hope I have her as a TA again. Overall easy to pass (with an A no less) but you don't walk away with a very strong understanding of the material.
Super easy class. The tests are really simple and the homework load is very light. I studied for pretty much the entire course content the day before the final and passed easily. Never attended a lecture. Would highly recommend the 3blue1brown video series about linear algebra because I think it teaches the concepts much better than the professor and is easier to follow than the textbook.