Mohan Kumar
6 courses · 25 reviews
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His modern algebra class made me give up pursuing math in grad school. I guess I should thank him
4/7/2021
The guy who converted me into a math major. Prof. Kumar was very accessible even outside of regular office hours to help me and he often offer some higher viewpoint beyond topic, which is invaluable for my later study when I review my lecture notes and see concepts of topology and groups mentioned in a calculus class. He gave me true taste of math.
2/5/2020
He is a good professor in terms of handling students' feedbacks. He is fairly flexible so if you have any problems regarding the course, I would recommend you to try telling him. But he is not the best in teaching and explaining the materials in easy way. Also his handwriting is very hard to read. He writes in cursive.
1/14/2020
Do the homework and you'll be good. He also heavily considers student feedback. Someone asked if the test would be open note and then he proceeded to ask if we wanted it to be. So the midterm and final were open note. His lecture style is straightforward but it's easy to get lost by nature of the material. His explanations aren't the clearest.
5/3/2017
Honestly the worst professor. He docked me off unreasonable points on my exam, and when going into his office hours, he yelled at me the entire time and wouldn't listen to what I had to say. Also doesn't explain anything in class clearly at all. Absolutely sucks.
11/15/2016
Not a stellar teacher, but not poor. He can be a little impatient at times, but he does a good job of providing examples in class. As long as you do the homework, the quizzes and exams are easy, since the questions are based on the homework
11/8/2015
Hate this professor. Horrible teaching. He yells at me for asking questions during office hours and almost made me cry once.
3/30/2015
Funny guy, class is a joke. He seems to really care although he can be awkward at times.
12/14/2014
Both of the calc 2 teachers this semester were awful. You will understand the concept walking out of class maybe 15 times.
11/24/2014
Kumar is an alright teacher but he doesn't explain particularly well in class. He will briefly speak about the theory and then do a bunch of practice problems. He welcomes questions but will get frustrated quickly if students don't learn immediately. He's enthusiastic but not always the easiest to learn from.
10/13/2014
Nice guy. Hardly ever used the textbook... which is great and all but come homework/studying time there became no real reference material to turn to except notes. His class was very non-structured and surprisingly interesting despite the difficult, time-consuming HW. Although he made the tests easy enough for you to ultimately do fine in the class.
7/12/2010
Kumar makes this class extremely difficult. 310 is entirely proof-based, and he will jump from step 1 to step 4 by saying "and so, it follows that..." and expect you to know WHY it follows, with no explanation. Admittedly, I've used that trick in my homework when I have no clue what I'm doing. I love math but really am not a fan of Kumar's teaching
11/17/2009
Like many in the math department, you can tell that he's a brilliant mathematician, but not the best teacher. After a couple weeks it wasn't really that hard to understand him and actually did a decent job of explaining some of the concepts.
12/13/2006
He is so so obviously smart, but the fact that he speaks broken English makes it hard to understand what he is saying, and he also has problems understanding people's questions in class. He definitely didn't just give you the easy questions in class, which made it better, but he is a much better mathematician than he is a teacher.
11/30/2006
Not as bad of a teacher as people make him out to be. Though in class examples were sometimes complicated, you were always prepared for what was going to be on the tests. Excellent dresser; always dressed to impress. Check out the pictures on his webpage. No, seriously, do it.
5/6/2006
Hard teacher and gets frustrated easily, but he really knows his stuff and cares about his students- he is rigid in some respects but is very willing to compromise if he sees a good reason. I am not usually big on office hours, but with him I found office hours more helpful than class, he is just very willing to help whenever (dont get intimidated)
4/26/2006
He is a brilliant mathematician but not the best teacher. His exams were very difficult but everything else was not too bad. In class he tended to teach concepts rather than examples. The language barrier was difficult for the first week or so but as you got used to it, it wasn't a problem.
1/24/2006
An underrated professor. He gets a lot of flak despite his clearly exceptional intelligence. Some Math teachers teach students to do well in exams and some teach them to be Mathematicians. He is the second breed and perhaps that's why he's so unpopular.
12/7/2005
Has a large language barrier and does not explain material well.
11/30/2005
If someone has a question in class, it just will not be answered; he just kind of responds with shock that it was asked in the first place. But he does a sort of alright job explaining the concepts in the first place. Not really clear, but if you've read the book you can kind of follow along and understand where he's going with stuff.
11/28/2005
i usually don't understand what he's doing in class. it's a whole bunch of equations and stuff that don't really relate to the material. and his tests are incredibly tricky and hard.
11/14/2005
He is not a very good teacher. He spends too much time on the derivations of equations, and not on how to apply the concepts. He hardly does examples, so, it is very unclear on what exactly we're supposed to do, or when to use certain concepts.
11/9/2005
not such a bad class. kumar may seem hard to understand at first but he is an indian math machine and one of the smartest people ever
11/3/2005
Kumar may seem hard to understand but he is actually very insightful and an excellent professor. He is also very funny.
10/10/2005