One of the best math professors I've had! He takes time to explain topics thoroughly in lecture and his quizzes are always really similar to the lecture examples or homework, so it's easy to practice/be prepared. His homework is graded on completion, which eliminates the stress of checking your work and just lets you practice problems and I was always able to complete them by setting aside one night of the week. His exams were fair and even though they were 24 hour format, I was able to finish them pretty quickly.

Math 106 is definitely different. I expected an easy A since this seems like a history class, but I was wrong. I think the professor you get for this class greatly affects your experience, as professors have the choice of covering certain chapters and whatnot. Here's the breakdown of this class with Tyler:

1) Tyler is a great lecturer. I learned mostly all of the material from his lectures and lectures notes. The book isn't so great, as it skips a lot of steps or explains things with too many words than actual math. Tyler did a great job with filling in the gaps and presenting a pretty complete class with his lectures and lecture notes.

2) Tyler's homework was okay. The questions he wrote were alright, but most of the time, I found the book questions to be confusing. Like I said before, the book is too verbose and the questions are just confusingly written. However, if you go to office hours, Tyler is more than happy to explain everything. He is very much advises students to come to office hours, and he is willing to explain and re-explain things that are confusing. He's very approachable in OH and in lecture, so the homework is not that bad to do if you just get help from him.

3) Tyler's exams are mostly fair. I thought his midterm was very fair based on the HW and lectures and his final was mostly fair. He did have one question I wasn't particularly a fan of, but that's only one question out of six. If you do the homework and understand the lecture notes, you should honestly be fine for the exam.

4) The content covered in this class is where I have the most issues. I think Tyler got to choose certain topics, and I feel like he made this class harder than it needed to be. He didn't focus much on the history, but had sections on sets and logic that were very new to some people. The only prerequisites for this class is lower division calculus, and oftentimes, I found myself using proof techniques and ideas that I learned in Math 115A. I don't think other professors make this class as hard as Tyler made it. It's not undoable or anything like that, but it's not what I signed up for.

Overall, I wouldn't mind having Tyler for another class. He is a good lecturer and is helpful and approachable. However, this class just wasn't my thing.

106 is a good class. Good overview of a lot of parts of math and good class to get used to writing some kind of proofs. Also the exams weren’t too hard (I was online though so it may be different since he curved easier for us)

131a is by definition going to be an insanely hard class. for everyone. so please keep that in mind. my whole class struggled together, and arant helped A LOT.
i think he's a great choice for 131a. Arant was unbelievably understanding. I always talked to him in office hours about my test anxiety and overall concerns and he was super down to earth and understanding, especially since this was our first in person quarter for a year and a half due to covid. grading is 20% homework, 20% midterm 1 20% midterm 2 40% final OR you can drop a midterm and have it be 30% with the final being 50%. most people dropped the second midterm since it was a complete shit show. I got F's on every exam and ended with a B-, so you really just have to hold your breathe and try your best until the end. He makes the material easier to understand, my advice would be to READ THE TEXTBOOK. every damn page. also buy the homework answers online (textbook solutions) through quizlet, it will save your life since the homework is really hard otherwise. He posts the recordings and his notes asap so you'll always have resources, and posts helpful 'what to know before the exam' sheets which I also really liked. i think he curved the class 20% since i had a 60% raw and ended with a B-. so that was really nice. i did email him after the second midterm basically in tears and he was super responsive and helpful. love this guy. TLDR: take him. it's going to be hard but he will help you!

Math 132 with Arant was a decent experience. Arant is chill and easy to talk to. His lectures are pretty clear and I appreciate him live streaming and recording lecture. I do agree his lectures are pretty similar to the textbook but I'm okay with that. Exams are okay, with averages in the 80s but keep in mind that exams were online this quarter. He also posts exam review questions which are pretty helpful, so make sure you study them. However he does not post homework solutions which is a con. His grading scheme is
Scheme 1:
20% Homework (Lowest 1 dropped)
20% Midterm 1
20% Midterm 2
40% Final

Scheme 2:
20% Homework (Lowest 1 dropped)
30% Better midterm
50% Final

I think the cons of this class is homework can be very time consuming. All of his homework are problems from Gamelin's book. Each homework is usually 10-11 problems, however each problem can have multiple parts so you should start early. To be honest, I think the first two weeks of the quarter had the hardest material, which is chapter 1 in Gamelin. But maybe that's just me. It gets better after you learn about Cauchy Riemann and line integrals.

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Not bad at all. The tests are easy. The homework is frustrating because you want to prove everything by appealing to common sense, but eventually the process of proofs for seemingly trivial ideas becomes fun. You gain a deeper understanding of the topics covered: fields, series, sequences, and functions, and derivatives (in one-dimensional calculus).

He is very concise in lectures and tells you exactly what you need to know. Additionally, I felt he was really knowledgeable about the applications of linear algebra and was more than excited to share with the class how what we were learning was relevant to the real world. He also encouraged us to take more math classes - you could tell that he’s truly enthusiastic about his profession!

This class seems to have undergone some changes from the F22 offering, but is not quite as bad as the other reviewer from this quarter makes it out to be.

First of all, the grading scheme seems to have been altered to make the class significantly more challenging. Instead of 65% exams, we had 80% exams (20% for each of two midterms and 40% final, or 25% better midterm + 55% final). No cheatsheets are allowed, so you have to diligently memorize every detail in addition to understanding the concepts. The midterms were pretty reasonable if you studied, but the final exam was difficult. My biggest gripe with Arant was that he lied that there would be a curve. When we got our midterm grades, we were shown curved grade cutoffs for exam scores, and he also said that he would curve the final exam according to standard deviation. However, he ended up not curving any of the exams at all. I still think getting an A in this course is doable though -- you just can't rely on the curve to save you. If you truly use all the resources Arant provides at your disposal, such as studying the lecture notes well, memorizing all the important details, redoing homework problems, doing the additional suggested practice problems, doing his practice exams, and going to his office hours (which he hosts more frequently around exams) if you're confused about something, you should have no trouble getting an A. Reading through that, I just realized that sounds like a lot, but someone smarter than me could probably achieve the same results with half the effort lol.

As for other changes to the course, quizzes are once per week instead of before each class. They are pretty easy and only 10% of the grade. The lowest quiz is dropped. Also, contrary to previous reviews discussing the time-consuming nature of the homeworks, the homeworks this quarter were relatively quick. Each homework took me on average 2-3 hours at a relaxed pace, which is saying a lot since I'm a pretty slow worker.

Aside from that, the previous reviews are correct that Arant is a very organized professor who is willing to help students succeed. Just know that it is up to you to fully leverage the resources Arant provides.

You are probably looking at all the buinwalk ratings for this class and see that this class should be a easy A. Here is my word of advice. Stay away from Tyler and take this class with another professor. Remove this class from your class planner if you want to save your gpa. You are not him. According to everyone I have talked to 33A is supposed to be a little tedious but not impossible. Tyler makes it impossible. No note card allowed in the midterms or finals and the practice exams are nothing like the real thing.