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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.

I took this class Fall Quarter 2025 and received an A. In comparison to the other professors teaching this course, Professor Arant is an absolute gem—you NEED to take his lecture if you want the best shot at doing well. His lectures are a bit fast-paced, and I’d sometimes fall behind on the notes, but his examples and theorem explanations were so clear that reviewing them later + watching a few YouTube videos was enough for me to fully understand the material. I didn’t take Calc BC (only AB, which I got a 5 on), and while BC students definitely have an advantage, most of the content was new to me and I still performed well.

Lectures aren’t mandatory, but people who had other professors would literally come to his lectures because he explains things so well. Homework is assigned but not mandatory—you definitely need to do it if you want to do well. If you’re ever lost in the class, he posts his notes online, there are tons of YouTube videos to help, and both he and his TAs are very helpful in office hours.

We had 5 quizzes, but they’re take-home and you have the whole day to complete them, so they’re pretty chill. There are 2 midterms and 1 final. Midterm 1 was very straightforward and the questions were all fair—class average was around 50/60. Midterm 2 was an absolute trainwreck (class average: 41/60). I got a 100 on Midterm 1 and then a 67 on Midterm 2. It was significantly harder, and some questions required really niche applications of convergence tests to get the correct answer.

This class isn’t easy, but with the right amount of work, an A is definitely achievable. Professor Arant was great and I would definitely recommend!!

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).

Arant is one of the best math professors I have ever had. 31B isn't easy, but Arant is extremely organized, posts notes and lecture recordings, and is very clear about his expectations for his students. If you pay attention in lecture and use all of the resources he makes available, you can do really well in his class.