Amazing professor, always be patient and good at helping students. Lecture note is clear and well-organized.

Brightbill is the best prof I've had in the math department. The way his class is set up really forces you to learn the concepts and material. HW is a lot but fair and you can do corrections for full points. Office hours are super valuable. Try to go to every lecture, he covers a lot. His class is hard but if you want to learn, he's your guy

Brightbill is very accessible outside of class and provides materials needed to succeed. While lectures are essential to attend in order for learning material, they are not mandatory, and most of the material still needs to be self-taught in order to truly understand it. The only way to learn the material is repetition, so get ready to work.

Hard class, good professor. Reading the book will help reinforce the material. Brightbill knows learning this new material is difficult. He will stay in office hours answering any questions til the cows come home, so going will help you understand the material.

Uses piazza for homework questions which honestly helps so much and definitely ask question if you are even a little bit confused because the class is so fast paced that it will all build up and you will be very behind if you don't. Easy to get a B but hard to get an A in the class. There is a ton !!! of homework but it does prepare you very well

Easily the best math professor I've had at UCSB. The material is fairly challenging but his teaching is so good that it makes up for it. He used his own "textbook" for 108A which consisted of his notes and it was way better than any other textbook I could have used. I highly recommend taking a course with him if you can.