Rick Ye has no structure to the class and fails to get almost any of the course content across to his students. The exams contain only free response questions. I had to learn a lot of the material from 3Blue1Brown. The homework is manageable but doesn't relate at all to the exams. If you go to section and use online resources, you might pass.

I am actually appalled that this guy is a teacher. DO NOT TAKE HIM unless you are very comfortable with self teaching. His lectures are convoluted and often go through only theory, with no working through examples that shows up in the homework. The TA's for the course, however, are fantastic and will be likely your best source of teaching.

everyone hating on rick is just not smart. he's a good professor. If you self-study you are good. he tells you everything that's gonna be on tests, it doesn't get easier than that

cant teach or speak in proper sentences, completely awful at teaching just rambles and doodles

He appears to harbor the belief that a challenging examination can serve as a testament to his proficiency, and furthermore, the midterm solution provided by Rick Ye deviates starkly from our own or has yet to be unearthed by myself.

Very difficult to keep up. Feels like concepts would be easier if taught better. Sitting in class kind of feels like when a parent is trying to teach you math at the dining while you're on the verge of tears. Yells his words in a way that frustrates me.

Mechanical teaching, like performing a task without any consideration for anything else.

Run, my friend, run for your life. Super hard exams, unformatted syllabus. He delivers his lecture by writing everything (messy) in an OneNote file and starts explaining everything without looking up (that's why he ignored students' high-held hand) and post the recorded version in GS THAT'S ALL U GET, not even the OneNote file. JUST RUN, MY FRIEND.

He simply followed the textbook in class, proving every single process without any logical guidance or explanation as to why. The examples he provided were unchallenging, but he would spend a lot of time proving them due to his frequent calculation errors. His notes were nearly illegible and his English communication skills were severely lacking.

TTTTTTTTTTTERRIBLE!!!!!!!! I do not understand what he said in class???? messy notes!!!!

If you ever feel useless in life attend one of his lectures. His tests are as broken as the McDonald's ice cream machines. He will give you questions that look familiar, but very complex, and you actually don't know how to do them because they never appeared in the homework. During exams, you will be stuck there twiddling your thumbs with regret

Would never take this class again.

The lectures are not helpful at all and super boring. If you plan on going bring your textbook or something to do problems to fill the time when he takes thirty minutes to teach one theorem.

His lectures are just him solving problems without explanation and aren't much help. The syllabus is a copy of the online textbooks table of contents, doesn't include office hours or anything useful. In my opinion, someone who can't even put together a syllabus has no business being employed anywhere.

I would never take Ye again. He is a terrible lecturer as he simply proofs theorems. His class is test heavy and, while the tests have a huge curve, they are extremely difficult. Study the homework and do every problem in the textbook if you are able to, and utilize sections and tutoring services.

Prof Ye lectures from the book so you don't need to attend lectures but it is nice to go sometimes. He cracks jokes during class and only sometimes uploads a recorded lecture depending on how the tech is working that day. At first class was very difficult but test are based off of HW and lecture examples and you get a entire page note sheet

SUPERB teacher. Addresses were sound and coordinated and the schoolwork and tests were SUPER clear. Assuming that you go to addresses, you basically DON'T need to study. Individuals that are COMPLAINING simply didn't go to the talks and stepped through the examination BLIND. His work on the Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality propelled me to study math

Big curves but hard exams

Absolutely AMAZING professor. Lectures were coherent and organized and the homework and tests were SUPER straightforward. If you attend lectures, you pretty much DON'T have to study. The people that are COMPLAINING just didn't go to the lectures and took the test BLIND. His work on the Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality inspired me to major in math.

Go to his lectures, read the textbook, set at least one hour of study time each week if possible. I struggled because I did not study, but I began studying/trying I found the class to be easy. You won't pass the class if you want the professor to explain everything in detail; you need to set time aside if you are struggling.

Super hard. Never took calc and was struggling the whole time. Sign up for CLAS tutorial groups. Didn't care about helping students. HW on webwork was hard and time consuming. Breakdown of grade is also bad, very test heavy. Only redeeming quality is that he gave us bonus points on midterm and final after everyone failed. Huge curve at the end.

Math 3A with Professor Ye was difficult. Very unorganized, hard-to-follow lectures and gave very difficult midterms and final. I'd recommend looking over the textbook, attending section, and using external resources like Khan Academy to study if you have to take this class. HW was on Webwork, so unlimited tries.

His lectures are hard to follow but he has a good personality. If the entire class is struggling, he will do things to help. Otherwise, self-studying is needed for this class. He only goes through textbook examples so it's better to just read that and ask TA questions and not waste time in his lectures.

The tests were most similar to the hardest homework problems. Practice those. Sucks bc tests comprised most of your grade in the class. The prof is a nice guy, but a bad teacher. Lectures suck. But I regret not forcing myself to go to lectures and section bc with a little more effort I think I could have gotten a better grade. Curve will save you.