Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
Maxim I don't think is teaching at UW-Madison moving forward from the Fall 2023 semester, but he was interesting. Sometimes hard to understand, but cared enough to make lectures entertaining.Rate My Professors ↗
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Quality 4/5Difficulty 4/5
Seeing the reviews on here quite surprised me. He was a respectful lecturer and accommodated student needs well. Also, he was easy to understand and made good use of lecture time. There were some exceptions, as he did go on useless tangents a few times, albeit those few times were few and far between.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 5/5
READ THE ONLINE BOOK!!! Max, as he asks to be called, is hilarious and does go over lots of content in class. It will be hard to follow if you are expecting to learn from lecture, but it is very useful if you have read through the section in the book before hand. It's a hard class but if you do some pre-work you will be able to stay on top of itRate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
As good as a math professor can be in my opinion. He explained things alright and goes through many practice problems in class. The issues in the course lie within the exams being massive percents of your grade and extremely difficult but unfortunately they are the same regardless of who you have as a professor.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
A kind of derogatory, condescending professor that probably need not be teaching students. He thinks he knows everything, and belittles students in class; playing uncomfortable jokes on them. I personally felt bad for some students who seemed to not understand the subject quite well, and he makes fun of them when asking questions in class .Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 5/5
Many definitions in the lecture, make sure to review all materials more than once. Also, pay attention to EVERY exercise he went through before the exam, which has high probability to show up in the exam. Also an extra credit problem in the final akin to one of the past challenging HW questions. Also available outside of classes. Overall, not bad.Rate My Professors ↗
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