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Christopher Anderson
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Winter 2019 - This is the a review for his 151B class. It is the easiest math class that I have ever taken in my life. I have already taken Vese's 151A, 155, the two classes that are well known for easy A, but this class is even easier. I would rank them as follow Vese's 151A > Vese's 155 > Chris Anderson's 151B.
Winter 2019 - This is the a review for his 151B class. It is the easiest math class that I have ever taken in my life. I have already taken Vese's 151A, 155, the two classes that are well known for easy A, but this class is even easier. I would rank them as follow Vese's 151A > Vese's 155 > Chris Anderson's 151B.
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Fall 2023 - In Math 151A you have to remember ridiculously many formulas and concepts, but the core is approximation. Miscellaneous ways of approximations. Newton's Methods, Numerical differentiation, Numerical Integration, Polynomial Interpolation, etc. This man is a legend. He gives very clear lecture notes, and teaches the material in a systematic & integrated manner. You can rely on the notes though, but would recommend attending his live lectures (need to wake up early a little bit!!) His in-class notes are also organized. Homeworks and tests are fair as long as you put efforts in this class. Try to take as many class as possible with him
Fall 2023 - In Math 151A you have to remember ridiculously many formulas and concepts, but the core is approximation. Miscellaneous ways of approximations. Newton's Methods, Numerical differentiation, Numerical Integration, Polynomial Interpolation, etc. This man is a legend. He gives very clear lecture notes, and teaches the material in a systematic & integrated manner. You can rely on the notes though, but would recommend attending his live lectures (need to wake up early a little bit!!) His in-class notes are also organized. Homeworks and tests are fair as long as you put efforts in this class. Try to take as many class as possible with him
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Winter 2024 - Pretty solid class and professor. It is just a tad bit tougher than 151A, which was already super easy. It's cool, and he explains well. He has a lot of academic experience which always is nice. I would've liked a bit more real life applications, rather than more proofs/plain computation. It delves deeper into linear algebra, interval of stability & timesteps of numerical methods, systems of ODEs, iterative methods, boundary problems and least squares. There was no curve this time (I think), it was around 50% As and A-s, which is pretty solid. I think there were a lot more A-s this time, slightly worse than previous quarters.
Winter 2024 - Pretty solid class and professor. It is just a tad bit tougher than 151A, which was already super easy. It's cool, and he explains well. He has a lot of academic experience which always is nice. I would've liked a bit more real life applications, rather than more proofs/plain computation. It delves deeper into linear algebra, interval of stability & timesteps of numerical methods, systems of ODEs, iterative methods, boundary problems and least squares. There was no curve this time (I think), it was around 50% As and A-s, which is pretty solid. I think there were a lot more A-s this time, slightly worse than previous quarters.
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Fall 2021 - Overall, this class is essentially Math 151B with a few more topics appended to it. This was my first class after a year and a half of covid where I did not learn too much. I think had I learned 151B properly (and knew how to code with MATLAB), this class would be an easy A. The midterm and final are comprised with computational problems, 5 true/false and a few conceptual questions. The grading scheme is 55% HW, 20% Midterm and 25% Final. Even though it is a graduate course, it doesn't have a curve so you need a 93%+ for an A. Anderson is a pretty nice guy and always open to help. I would definitely take another class with him. I only went to lectures for the first half of the quarter because I got tired of waking up for 9ams. Our TA Cameron Kissler is one of the nicest people I've met and any class with him as the TA I would enroll in. One great thing about Anderson is he grades super fast. Less than a week turnaround for both exam scores. The exams itself are both 50 minutes (midterm around week 5 and final friday week 10). They are very fair and everyone seems to do well on them. The homework took a while for me but that's because I didn't go to lectures nor knew how to code that well (first time coding in MATLAB). Overall, If you did well in 151AB and want to try a graduate course - I'd recommend this course. If you are a graduate student, this should be probably the easiest graduate course you take.
Fall 2021 - Overall, this class is essentially Math 151B with a few more topics appended to it. This was my first class after a year and a half of covid where I did not learn too much. I think had I learned 151B properly (and knew how to code with MATLAB), this class would be an easy A. The midterm and final are comprised with computational problems, 5 true/false and a few conceptual questions. The grading scheme is 55% HW, 20% Midterm and 25% Final. Even though it is a graduate course, it doesn't have a curve so you need a 93%+ for an A. Anderson is a pretty nice guy and always open to help. I would definitely take another class with him. I only went to lectures for the first half of the quarter because I got tired of waking up for 9ams. Our TA Cameron Kissler is one of the nicest people I've met and any class with him as the TA I would enroll in. One great thing about Anderson is he grades super fast. Less than a week turnaround for both exam scores. The exams itself are both 50 minutes (midterm around week 5 and final friday week 10). They are very fair and everyone seems to do well on them. The homework took a while for me but that's because I didn't go to lectures nor knew how to code that well (first time coding in MATLAB). Overall, If you did well in 151AB and want to try a graduate course - I'd recommend this course. If you are a graduate student, this should be probably the easiest graduate course you take.
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