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ARUN RAM

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Raw average: 3.83/5 from 115 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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RA295 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
Brilliant Teacher, and my favourite. Made things so easy to understand, very very interesting and fun. Same with everyone else on the homework comment - way too much!!!! But very useful.
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RA295 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
Arun makes learning maths fun, but the homework is far too much.
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RA295 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Really entertaining. One of my favourite lecturers.
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MATH 221
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
horrible!!!!! who teaches calculus without a book? No reference to follow if you have questions(and I had a crappy T.A. as well). 100 plus homework problems each week...if you have any doubts about calculus choose another lecturer. By far the worst class I had at Madison -
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CALC221 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 5/5
This man is god. I had him as a freshman for 221 and despite the large amount of work and hours put into the course, if you survive this class, you are set for any other math class at Madison and will sail through it. Also, don't invest in a textbook for 221 because he never uses it-all homework is made up by him and on his website to be printed of
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Classes with ARUN RAM

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2009MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2009MATH 990Reading and Research
Spring 2008MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2007MATH 340Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra
Fall 2007MATH 541Modern Algebra 1
Fall 2007MATH 747Lie Algebras
Fall 2007MATH 941Seminar-algebra
Spring 2007MATH 843Representation Theory
Spring 2007MATH 990Reading and Research
Fall 2006MATH 221Calculus and Analytic Geometry 1

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