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ALEX WALDRON

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Raw average: 2.67/5 from 30 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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MATH 234
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Not a bad lecturer, sometimes rushes but there's also just a lot of content to get through. Do NOT go to office hours, very very unhelpful, just says look at your notes from lecture and acts like everything is very obvious. Very unapproachable so if you have questions just ask your TA or someone else, not him.
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MATH 761
Quality 2/5Difficulty 5/5
The teaching was decent and fairly standard, but the professor was difficult to get along with.
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MATH 234
Quality 4/5Difficulty 4/5
Prof. Waldron did excellent emphasizing the conceptual part with the math (helped me understand theorems better) in Math 234. He's also pretty accessible with office hours, where he observes your thought process to problems before helping you tweak it, correcting misunderstandings memorably. If you have him, try to understand the math conceptually.
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MATH 234
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Professor Waldron was always incredibly rushed during lectures, always claiming that he "didnt have enough time" to explain concepts, and genuinely did not teach me or any of my classmates anything. If you have him as your professor be prepared to have to teach yourself everything in this class.
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Classes with ALEX WALDRON

MATH 765

Differential Geometry

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Covers the metric properties of Riemannian manifolds, including geodesics, comparison theorems, and Hodge-de Rham theory.

No offering record · Spring 2026

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Alex Waldron

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Fall 2021–Spring 2026 · limited sample

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2026MATH 765Differential Geometry
Spring 2026MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2025MATH 234Calculus--functions of Several Variables
Fall 2025MATH 951Seminar in Topology
Spring 2025MATH 551Point-set Topology
Spring 2025MATH 951Seminar in Topology
Fall 2024MATH 761Differentiable Manifolds
Spring 2024MATH 521Analysis I
Spring 2024MATH 951Seminar in Topology
Fall 2023MATH 698Directed Study
Fall 2023MATH 765Differential Geometry
Spring 2022MATH 699Directed Study
Spring 2022MATH 865Advanced Topics in Geometry
Spring 2022MATH 951Seminar in Topology
Fall 2021MATH 221Calculus and Analytic Geometry 1
Fall 2021MATH 951Seminar in Topology
Fall 2020MATH 320Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

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