MATH 131A
Analysis
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B. Recommended: course 115A. Rigorous introduction to foundations of real analysis; real numbers, point set topology in Euclidean space, functions, continuity. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2016 - Okay the other reviewers are right. Eric uses a big notebook all the time from which he copies notes, so his lectures can get boring sometimes. But he does offer extra credit during a random lecture to reward attendance. He is very willing to help you after class and in his office hour for all kinds of questions. This is very important for 131A. Eric's exams are pretty fair. All you have to do is to memorize important definitions and nearly all the theorem proofs. This sounds silly, but this is what 131A is all about. Overall I'd recommend him for 131A, plus he's a good looking stud.:)
Winter 2016 - Okay the other reviewers are right. Eric uses a big notebook all the time from which he copies notes, so his lectures can get boring sometimes. But he does offer extra credit during a random lecture to reward attendance. He is very willing to help you after class and in his office hour for all kinds of questions. This is very important for 131A. Eric's exams are pretty fair. All you have to do is to memorize important definitions and nearly all the theorem proofs. This sounds silly, but this is what 131A is all about. Overall I'd recommend him for 131A, plus he's a good looking stud.:)
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It was a pain being in his class. I'm a math major and I love math, but this class was just too darn boring, and it might have been due to Ralston. He knows the material, but doesn't know how to deliver it. His midterm was fair, but the final blew me out of the water (I got a D on it, but somehow it was the 7th highest grade in the class, out of 40+ people). I wish he had a better way of making us understand the material or seeing its importance, but he couldn't. I shall avoid him at all costs. (Got an A- in the class btw.)
It was a pain being in his class. I'm a math major and I love math, but this class was just too darn boring, and it might have been due to Ralston. He knows the material, but doesn't know how to deliver it. His midterm was fair, but the final blew me out of the water (I got a D on it, but somehow it was the 7th highest grade in the class, out of 40+ people). I wish he had a better way of making us understand the material or seeing its importance, but he couldn't. I shall avoid him at all costs. (Got an A- in the class btw.)
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