Reviews of professor Jarod Alper

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is really nice. He wore Halloween outfit to class on Halloween and told us a small mathematic Halloween joke. He is so so so nice. But math 427 is an advanced class and it's very tough. HW is very difficult but exams are not that bad but you have to understand the material well. He gave a high grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures were completely conceptual in a way that did not teach actual content relevant to exams. Many of my peers did very well due to prior knowledge, but if you do not have prior knowledge your best bet is to look at his old exams because lectures do not give you a sense of which concepts he is claiming to have covered.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Alper was a solid professor. The class was a little unorganized and the homework wouldn't always be aligned with the lectures, but he was good at explaining concepts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good: endearing and hilarious. Loved when he'd show us videos or tell us about history stuff (this only happened occasionally). Lectures are highly conceptual & help a lot if you think of them that way. Fair exams. Bad: absolutely does not care about grades & provides little indication of relative success. Unnecessarily difficult homework.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice enough prof. Very vague and goes over simple formulas mostly, but if you need help he is always there. Worksheet every TA section. If you want to succeed in this class, do most of the learning on your own.