Eric was the worst professor Ive had at UCSB. Most of the lecture he reads off his slideshow and the slides are always so packed with text its hard to take notes. When he includes examples he usually just shows the solution without working through the problem with the class. His tests also include a lot of definitions rather than math problems

I was optimistic at the beginning of the quarter because he's smart and interesting. But the lectures are confusing. Expect to spend a considerable amount of time self-learning. Use CLAS. True/false questions from the hw end up on the exams, make sure you understand them. Study definitions! He sends a list of terms to know but no practice exams.

Sounds like a smart guy but when it comes to teaching, it isn't his cup of tea. Uses too much jargon and doesn't provide practice exams so you're literally lost on what to study for.

He reminds of Justin Russo (WOWP) with how proper and specific he is. However, his class is tough. Learned more stuff in section. His lectures are the same as the book. Definitely intelligent but terrible at explaining things to the point you can have an intuitive sense. No practice midterms so you really have no clue what the test is gonne be like

reads off the lectures which have the same jargon as the book. Very confusing at times especially with all the theorems and definitions

Eric focuses on the theorems and the explanation of why versus performing problems and examples. For someone who is not a math major and gets confused in all the mumbo-jumbo of math texts he is not the right professor. recommend taking his class if you wish to continue to higher math if not maybe go with a professor who is more example based.