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SEAN PAUL
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Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
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
Covers vector analysis including Green, Gauss, and Stokes theorems, and complex analysis including the residue theorem.
No offering record · Spring 2026
with this instructor · course overall, matching historical terms
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2021–Spring 2026Recorded teaching history
Distinct courses recorded per term
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| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | MATH 321 | Applied Mathematical Analysis 1: Vector and Complex Calculus |
| Fall 2025 | MATH 521 | Analysis I |
| Spring 2025 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2024 | MATH 340 | Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra |
| Fall 2023 | MATH 234 | Calculus--functions of Several Variables |
| Spring 2023 | MATH 561 | Differential Geometry |
| Fall 2022 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2022 | MATH 551 | Point-set Topology |
| Spring 2022 | MATH 761 | Differentiable Manifolds |
| Fall 2020 | MATH 551 | Point-set Topology |
| Spring 2020 | MATH 222 | Calculus and Analytic Geometry 2 |
| Spring 2020 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2019 | MATH 865 | Advanced Topics in Geometry |
| Fall 2019 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Spring 2019 | MATH 761 | Differentiable Manifolds |
| Spring 2019 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2019 | MATH 951 | Seminar in Topology |
| Spring 2019 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2018 | MATH 234 | Calculus--functions of Several Variables |
| Fall 2018 | MATH 951 | Seminar in Topology |
| Spring 2018 | MATH 561 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2018 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2018 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2017 | MATH 234 | Calculus--functions of Several Variables |
| Spring 2017 | MATH 865 | Advanced Topics in Geometry |
| Fall 2016 | MATH 234 | Calculus--functions of Several Variables |
| Spring 2016 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2016 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2015 | MATH 681 | Senior Honors Thesis |
| Fall 2015 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Spring 2015 | MATH 551 | Point-set Topology |
| Spring 2015 | MATH 865 | Advanced Topics in Geometry |
| Fall 2014 | MATH 221 | Calculus and Analytic Geometry 1 |
| Fall 2014 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Spring 2014 | MATH 340 | Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra |
| Spring 2014 | MATH 551 | Point-set Topology |
| Spring 2014 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2013 | MATH 761 | Differentiable Manifolds |
| Spring 2012 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2011 | MATH 340 | Elementary Matrix and Linear Algebra |
| Spring 2011 | MATH 561 | Differential Geometry |
| Fall 2010 | MATH 865 | Advanced Topics in Geometry |
| Spring 2010 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2010 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Fall 2009 | MATH 541 | Modern Algebra 1 |
| Fall 2009 | MATH 990 | Reading and Research |
| Spring 2009 | MATH 551 | Point-set Topology |
| Fall 2008 | MATH 112 | College Algebra |
| Fall 2008 | MATH 375 | Topics in Multi-variable Calculus and Linear Algebra |
| Spring 2008 | MATH 222 | Calculus and Analytic Geometry 2 |
| Spring 2008 | MATH 765 | Differential Geometry |
| Fall 2007 | MATH 221 | Calculus and Analytic Geometry 1 |
| Spring 2007 | MATH 561 | Differential Geometry |
| Spring 2007 | MATH 951 | Seminar in Topology |
| Fall 2006 | MATH 865 | Advanced Topics in Geometry |
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