Professor Gannon is my absolute favorite professor in my 2 years at UCLA. Words cannot describe how much I wish I could take every class with him.

Gannon made me feel like I was attending a little “fireside chat” in every lecture. The lecturing environment was supremely chill and relaxed compared to every other math class I’ve been in. You can tell that Gannon keeps his students engaged and gives them the intrinsic motivation to learn math. It’s just his charm.

Homework assignments were rather difficult compared to other math classes I’ve been in. There was one particular problem on an assignment that took me 8 hours to figure out. To be sure, though, that problem was an outlier. A few problems on each assignment are graded for accuracy, while the rest are graded for completion. He also gives extra practice problems on each assignment, and I highly recommend you do them. I probably spent an average of 8 hours on each assignment.

Homework assignments are designed to be harder than exams.

The exams in this class were fair but hard. Gannon finds ways to interconnect multiple concepts we learned in single problems. It is essential that you remember every theorem in class and pay attention to how the material from one lecture may connect to material from the others.

I leave this class feeling like I learned a lot and confident in what I learned.

Grading (there were 8 homework assignments in total):

20% Homework (Best 7 scores); 25% Midterm 1; 25% Midterm 2; 30% Final exam
or
20% Homework (Best 7 scores); 35% Best midterm score; 45% Final exam

And in case you were wondering, his beard is as luscious as it appears in his profile pic, perhaps even more. What a stud.

TLDR: THE G IN GANNON STANDS FOR GOATED

This man is honestly incredible. You will appreciate him as much as he appreciates Thursdays.

- lectures are so clear and organized. imagine using Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser on your kitchen sink - that kind of clear
- content is interesting. Discrete math was a boogeyman to my poor little cs soul but Gannon really broke down the concepts and made them super intriguing
- Gannon's love and appreciation for math was just so apparent and admirable. Whenever the class covers something that he thinks is cool, he will always stop to make a point appreciating the math for what it is. The passion for the topics was honestly really infectious
- exams are as fair as the skin on Orlando Bloom's Legolas

Gannon is def the best math prof I've had. i mean look at his rating-- he has like a solid 5/5.

His lectures are super chill- we were online but he made it feel like a real irl lecture. like he would have chalkboard lectures just to simulate the feeling of real lectures.

He's genuinely a great guy, HW was challenging but fair, midterms were half computational half conceptual, easier than the HW but still somewhat challenging (still fair tho), same for finals.

He gives a tiny bit of EC if you do the feedback form, and drops your lowest HW grade.

Workload is very fair- like 3-5 hrs of HW a week.

overall, 10/10 prof, someone tell him to teach math 170e/math170a cause i want to take him again!

Professor Gannon is absolutely fantastic for this class. Extremely clear explanations of everything, doesn't go crazy on exams, and just a genuinely nice guy. The hardest thing about this class are probably the proofs and recurrence relations, however with all the help from the prof and TA's it really isn't bad at all.