18.102
Table of contents
- Course Info
- Realistic Prerequisites
- Subject Matter
- Course Staff
- Lectures
- Problem Sets
- Exams
- Resources
- Grading
- Advice to Future Students
Course Info
Class Size | 50 |
Hours/Week | 9.3 (8 responses) |
Instructors | Casey Rodriguez (Lecturer), Hunsucker, Zachary D. (UA), Yu, Jeffery (UA) |
# of Responses to Course 18 Underground Questions | 14/50 |
Realistic Prerequisites
- Real Analysis: Comfort with real analysis necessary. 18.100a necessary and 18.100b recommended. The professor provided additional background for students that have taken 18.100a.
- Mathematical maturity: some prior proof-writing experience is helpful.
- 18.06: Some linear algebra is needed.
Subject Matter
- Theoretical: The course content was theoretical.
- Broad: Certain topics were covered in depth such as Banach spaces, Lesbesgue measure, and Hilbert spaces.
Course Staff
- Caring and approachable: The professor received nothing other than fantastic reviews. The staff answered questions on Piazza about course content and psets.
Lectures
- Lectures were asynchronous and had accompanying notes. Students found the pace good and the lectures very interesting.
Problem Sets
- Appropriate Difficulty: Students found the problem sets somewhat difficult but not too difficult.
Exams
- The midterm was open notes and was very similar to the problem sets. 24 hours were given for the midterm and 48 hours were given for the final.
Resources
- Melrose’s Functional Analysis notes and Royden’s Real Analysis were recommended.
- Several students referred to Andrew Lin’s notes.
Grading
- Fair: Grading is very fair but not necessarily lenient.
- 90+ guarantees an A and the grade distribution for the midterm indicated that there would be lots of A’s.
Advice to Future Students
- Sleep
- Take this course especially with Professor Rodriguez!
- A student recommended doing the psets right after the relevant lectures were posted.