Professor Suzuki, in my opinion, is a fantastic instructor. I would say he should be considered as one of the best math instructor within the department. First of all, the structure of his lectures are well planned in a way that makes the lesson easily digestible. He starts with some definitions and gives context on the lesson then moves on to examples. These examples would do a good job of representing the type of problems we would encounter on exams and homework. I especially appreciated this since I've unfortunately had professors (Ocal for 31B) who would do super easy examples in lecture but assign problems that would be much more difficult. Furthermore, Suzuki is very fair in terms of workload. He assigns 20 problems each week. I find this to be a good number where it's enough to be good practice and it's not too much that it's just busy work. There is also a quiz every week which are also very fair. Suzuki writes his exams so that it's very representative of what we've learned in class. He never throws any curveball questions or tries to trick us with a confusing question. His exams are fair in the sense that if you paid attention in class and did the homework, you should do well on the exams too. Not only is Suzuki a great lecturer, he is also very helpful outside the classroom. The week prior to an exam, Suzuki would graciously host a review session for the benefit of his students. I'm especially grateful for this since I believe these review sessions helped me greatly. There's a lot of content to cover in order to review for a test but Suzuki does it in a good way. I also really appreciate how accommodating Suzuki is towards exam scores. When he decided that he was not going to curve the midterms, he compensated by laying out the specifics of the final and dropping an additional quiz score while also assigning another one to boost quiz grades. All in all, I really don't have any complaints about Professor Suzuki. I think he is a terrific instructor and hope he continues to do what he does. I definitely recommend taking this guy.

TAKE SUZUKI IF POSSIBLE. I'm not going to claim this class is easy, but Suzuki does everything in his power to make it as easy as possible. None of the homework is busy work and there is a very manageable amount, he outlines every midterm and final and gives past years' tests as practice. He wastes no time in lectures and definitely moves fast, and the content can be difficult, but he is the best professor I've had so far in my short time at UCLA.

Professor Suzuki's lectures are fast. Very fast. So it may be a challenge to keep up and you may just need to write down everything first and process it later. But with the extensive practice that he gives with practice midterms and problems from the textbook, it is fairly easy to understand the concepts that he went over in class. His midterms cover essentially the same material from the textbook and there were never any surprise concepts tested.

Prof. Suzuki leads a tight ship. He's a great lecturer and willing to go back over topics that need explaining. The homework assignments were manageable and prepared me well for the exams, and the grading scheme was pretty generous. This was a major course for me, but somewhat tangential to my actual field, so I'm not sure if this covered all the material a math major would want to learn. I sometimes felt like there was a little too much hand-holding, with him telling us exactly which questions would be on the final, and leaving out several topics because we didn't have time to cover them. I didn't mind this because it made the class less work, but it might be a trade-off with how well you actually learn the material.

Was really pleased to be able to get Suzuki for my first quarter here as I saw his high reviews, and I will say he absolutely did not disappoint.

The class itself is composed of five major grading components: book homework, online quizzes (multiple choice), two midterms, and a final. The two lowest homework and quiz grades are dropped automatically at the end of the quarter, so you only really have to do five of each. There's also an alternate grading scheme that allows you to drop the lower of your two midterms, but the final is then weighted more.

Content-wise, everything is fairly straightforward. Grading felt fair overall (the final had a 92% average), and practically the entire question layout of every test was communicated ahead of time with ample practice exams posted online.

Though I will say Suzuki does struggle sometimes in terms of clarity, and the grammar on his tests can be occasionally strange, he's without a doubt an extremely compassionate and kind professor, and he offers regular office hours with very quick response times to emails. Overall, I'd recommend this class highly.