Laurent Marcoux - University of Waterloo

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Laurent Marcoux - University of Waterloo

Professor: Laurent Marcoux

Department: Mathematics

College: University of Waterloo

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: MATH148
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Good prof, but lots of work. Recommended that you go to every lecture and do all assignment questions (optional or not). Beware that he doesn't curve, so ensure you know your stuff for the exams. Otherwise, Prof. Marcoux explains concepts very well and clearly knows what he is doing.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: MATH148
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Hilarious

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: PMATH351
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Fine notes, but the contents are not actually about Real Analysis. His lectures proceed very fast. He seems to not care about his students at all. Tons of homework. No curve. Brutal marking schemes. Pool assignment markers.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: MATH148
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I enjoyed his lectures so much. Not only was he really funny and taught in an understandable way, but his lecture notes were organized so clearly. His assignments and exams may be hard but this course was so worth it

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: MATH148
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This is definitely a challenging course and your grades may suffer, but Marcoux is a really funny lecturer who makes it all worthwhile. The exams are pretty fair, know your proofs and do the homework.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: PMATH450
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

WEEKLY assignments with 7 questions each! Fair midterm (68 average) but unpredictably hard final, not sure whether he will curve the grades.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: MATH147
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Warning! No curve at all. But he is a good porf. The cold joke is really fun. Memorize everything from the course note and you will get a good mark. His exams are just reproducing everything from course note.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: MATH147
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Great lecturer. Knew how to make stuffunderstandable. Hilarious dry humour. Weekly assignments can be a major headache. No scale, no curve, but two thirds of the exams are directly taken either from the lecture notes or the assignments. Be prepared to write a lot in lectures. His notes are organized like a book.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: MATH147
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Marcoux is awesome. His lectures move at a break-neck pace, but he always knows exactly how to present the information in an (eventually) understandable and exciting way. Also, he's super funny.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: PMATH351
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Let U be the set of professors that are rigorous in teaching. Let V be the set of professors that have sense of humour and make the class engaging. I just proved that the intersection of U and V is non-empty by taking his course.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: PMATH351
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: Yes
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The best.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: 146351
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 2.5
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prepare to suffer intellectual deprivation after an onslaught of non-informative examples post every definition. Prepare to have an advanced class turned into series of semi-rigorous and out of place insertions where there are much more important theorems to do. Our next professor was socked at how little we covered.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: PMATH351
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Real Analysis was so fun with Marcoux! He's a really funny guy and he knows Analysis inside out. Take a course with him, work hard, and you're guaranteed to learn a lot.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: PMATH351
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Great prof with a funny sense of humour. You can tell he enjoys teaching and loves math. I would definitely take another course he teaches.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: MATH146
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

great prof, and a wonderful sense of dry humour. Assignments were interesting and fair. Sometimes the boardwork in class gets a bit too much though.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: MATH228
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Easily one of my favourite professors. On the first day, he made it clear that his background was in pure mathematics, and he wasn't very comfortable around differential equations (228 is the first ODE course). He then proceeded to rock the rest of the course, and inspired me to double major with math. Absolutely fantastic.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: PMATH332
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Marcoux has a very dry humour which might take some time to appreciate but it helps making attending more interesting. The class is quite hard and I was lost sometimes. The weekly assignments take a lot of time but a very helpful to understand the material!

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: MATH228
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.5
Course Difficulty: 2.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Really funny guy but writes a lot so bring extra sheets of paper!

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: PMATH352
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.5
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He clearly did not understand the content of the course. For example, he spent a week proving a "horrible technical lemma" which was not used in the rest of the course because he realized after he proved it that it was not needed. Assignments were marginally related to lectures. Exams are pretty unpredictable.Definitely the worst analysis prof here

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: PMATH352
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

For Credit: N/A
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: N/A
Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Clear explanations, very thorough notes, gives fair assignments and exams but makes you work hard in the course. The only complaint I have is that during the final exam he handed out apple juice and I would have preferred orange. Otherwise a great prof.

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