David is easily the best professor I have had in the math department at ucla. He is the most approachable and friendly professor I have had in any class. He is an extremely clear lecturer and his pacing is fantastic. He routinely takes time to answer questions and genuinely seems to love teaching. He posts his lecture notes and lecture recordings on canvas. I would recommend attending lectures in person as they are easily the most useful of any math class I've taken. The material is definitely conceptually challenging but that is just how 32b is. I think David teaches the course about as well as it can possibly be taught. Homework is assigned weekly and is very manageable. Underrated, but he also posts 95% odd numbered problems on the homeworks so you can actually see the solutions in the back of the textbook. The first midterm was difficult, the second was much easier. He posts practice exams with solutions before the midterms, and they were fairly similar to the actual exams. His grading scheme is forgiving with one where a midterm is dropped, and one where both midterms are counted. He automatically picks the scheme that results in the higher grade for students. I believe he only adjusts scores before the final grades go in, I will update on that when I finish the class. Tldr: take this class with David, I doubt there is a better professor.

Beers is a great lecturer and makes the topics very clear. However, the content of 32B is just really difficult and his exams dumbfounded me. I do believe this is in part due to the math department getting on the profs for harder grading, but it still sucks a lot. He doesn't curve individual exams either, so if you have a terrible grade you lowk won't know if you pass the class til the end. There's weekly homework which is annoying at times but manageable.

tbh 32b is always gonna be a bit difficult by nature of the content but beers's exams are quite easy (especially compared to what i see from my peers at other UCs taking equivalent classes) so i'd recommend him

So far, Dr. Beers has been a pretty good, lenient professor. I've always been bad at math, but the class is easy to follow, the workload is light, and the midterms seem fair (seriously... the questions were like textbook problems and slightly changed in-class examples). He's also curving generously. In my opinion, you'll do fine in this class if you pay attention in lecture and do plenty of workbook problems.

Took Prof Beers in my first quarter, and this was his first class taught. I really liked him!!! His tests are easy, and homework is reasonable too, and overall just a really funny and nice guy.