I took this course during COVID-19. Professor Arant is nice in general. The first midterm is easy; the second midterm is kind of hard; the final is fine. The workload for this class comes from homework. Although the homework is graded upon completion, it still takes several hours to finish. Weekly quizzes are tricky, but if you fully understand his lecture notes, you are gonna be fine.

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.

Got an A in this class.
He is an excellent and helpful professor. I learned a lot in his class.
However, the exams are VERY VERY VERY hard.
Also, he LIFTED the A boundaries.
If you are not SUPER into probability
DO NOT TAKE HIS CALSS
Otherwise, he is super nice and helpful. A very good professor.
BUT IF YOU WANT AN ESAY A DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS !!!

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).

Tyler is an all-around amazing professor. lectures are well-structured and build upon each other. even though the material can get very abstract (im lookin at YOU, implicit/inverse function theorem) he makes sure to motivate the definitions/theorems with intuitions and examples. he's also very helpful in office hours so if you have questions about the HW definitely attend those to ask questions.

just beware: the final grade is curved, but you CANNOT rely on the curve to save you. the median grade was around a B, so to get an A you have to truly do quite well on the midterms and final.
There is little room for error as one mistake can get you docked many points on a problem if it leads you to the wrong final answer, and when midterms are only out of 50, losing 5 points means losing 10%.

Overall, Tyler makes 32AH a challenging but rewarding course that will give you a much deeper understanding of multi, as opposed to the regular 32A

Tyler arant is a very good lecturer, but he lowkey gatekeeps everything. Canvas had literally nothing on there, no notes, no topics, nothing. He just posted homework solution videos and a practice midterm and final which were pretty good but it was a bit annoying before the final when I was trying to study and his "final exam information" pdf just had the location of the final and a half-ass formula sheet that was missing like half of the formulas that you actually needed to know for the test.

I know for a fact this man is a gambler tho he dropping a vegas reference every week even hit us with the plinko gambling example to represent clt.

Homeworks were pretty chill, so were quizzes, tests were alright (midterm and final averaged around a 60%)