Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
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Sean Paul
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Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Disorganized teaching and old-fashioned personality. It seems as though, after decades of teaching, there have only been a handful of students he could truly get along with, and he constantly brings them up repeatedly. He looks down on any student who does not meet those standards.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Don't be misled by his outward enthusiasm. In reality, he seems to enjoy the attention more than genuinely caring about students, and he shows very little sympathy toward those who struggle.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 3/5
I should have trusted his RMP reviews and avoided taking his class. He seems to believe that whenever students struggle, it always entirely the students' own fault. I feel sorry for him.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Final Exam was twice as long as previous exams, much more difficult, written in a new language, and we had the same amount of time. He says we have to do the exam on separate pages we dont even turn in and just transfer the answers over? no room to do the questions on the same page. just a total display of complete and utter incompetence.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
There has never been anything fair about this. Says all singularities will be simple poles on the exam and then its double pole. Says complex integral will be one of 33ish from our problem set/his own list, also a lie. Doesn't use any of the notation from the book we do the problems from so the exam is quite literally a different language.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Sean Paul
MATH 521
Analysis I
3 creditsAnalysis I covers real numbers, set theory, metric spaces, basic topology, sequences and series, limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, and uniform convergence.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Sean Paul
Sean Paul's lectures were disorganized but informative, with video recordings provided for each class. Students reported that diligent study allowed them to learn a lot and achieve good grades without significant difficulty.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026MATH 951
Seminar in Topology
1–3 creditsSeminar in Topology covering selected topics in Topology.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2007: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2018: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sampleRecorded teaching history
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