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THE best math prof you will get. PERIOD.

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THE BEST!!!

He rocks. Australian accents are cool. That all I have to say about that.

He gives his best to his students!

Australian accent kicks ass. bestest in the westest, drop the mauve socks.

very SEXYYYYYYY!! ;) yeah baby! australian accent very hot!!! keep it up! hehe

I like your pink and purple jacket!

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Australia's loss is our gain!

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BEST prof ever!! soo great.. halloween costume?! :)

THE BEST. he is into what he teaches. explains REALLY good. (Y)

Really cool Austrailian accent; really helpful outside of class.

Great prof but needs more Aussie lingo :)

loves math so much he actually kept me awake! Australian accent is awesome

great prof. lots of energy :)

Excellent communicator. Charismatic, Cool Accent! Knows his stuff

Awesome prof, go have a beer with him after class!

Such a cool guy, he'll make anyone love math!

this dude is my fave prof :-) He is very enthusiastic and I look foward to his lectures

Barry is awesome and inspiring... He is so FUNNY & interesting. Barry is probably the best first year prof. Go Barry, go Barry.

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A very cool teacher! Very funny and helpful~~My favorite teacher ever!

Barry is always willing to help out students. He sits with you until you fully understand the subject matter. really awesome guy, and his love for math is shown in his energy! Thanks for a great semester barry!

man hes an australian teachin lin alg. need i say more? The class is worth taking for his accent alone

he's basically just the man

Very helpful and funny. If you get the chance, take a class with him. Where else will you hear "all you ever wanted to know about penguins"?

makes the course so interesting. very funny. his tests are reasonable. very helpful DGD sessions.

Barry is a very talented prof and a great person. You'll see for yourself if you get the chance to take his course.

WoW what can I say, AMAZING PROF!!! He is very helful and is there when you need him. His tests are a joke(just like the dgd and previousd tests onhis website). Best prof ever.

I had him for algebra. Great teacher. He was very helpful and tried to get the class involved. He knows what he is talking about and his practice tests are very useful. He wants you to pass the course and cares about you. I did very well on the exam and got an A+ in the course.

I had him for first year algebra in 1990/1991. He was not as friendly in person as on the stage.

He is great. except for the accent but still understandable.

He is the best prof ever, he cares about his students and he wants you to pass course. He is always in his office to help you understand the material.

Love Barry!!!

By far my favourite Math prof. His classes are hard but not because he makes it that way...it's just because the material is brutal. He makes it not so brutal.

Barry is such a nice guy and a great prof. Really wants students to do well and is always willing to help you understand during office hours. 2120 is not an easy course so don't expect to understand everything during lecture - but Barry makes it tolerable.

Pretty Good prof, Material is horrible but he does his best and loves teaching and being up in front of the class. He weight shifts so if your final is better then a mark it replaces it, which is good. His previous exams are a goldmine for your exam they will be almost exactly the same as his previous years one's, just different numbers

Good dynamic and animated prof

The course material isn't the easiest, but he does a very good job of conveying it. Very approachable and helpful during office hours. He makes all his past midterms and finals available for students to practice - get familiar with these, and the assessments are easy. You can't go wrong with this prof.

Good professor, teaches subject material effectively. Courses he teaches are usually quite difficult in subject matter, but he makes it accessible. Exams are tough but fair.

Simply awesome!His lectures are totally worth attending and he's extremely helpful if you ask questions or go to office hours. He posts previous tests and assignments with solutions and they are a goldmine if you are looking for an A in this class. Notes are also very good and you learn a lot from this guy. Plus, gotta love the accent.

He's a Great Australian Prof! This is a first year class. Dont focus on knowing why things are the way they are, just trust Barry and DO ALL THE PRACTICE TESTS AND EXAMS! Confusing material, but fairly simple final.

Exemplary professor. Animated, engaging, and always helpful. Excellent class control. Never has an educator aroused such passion in me for mathematics, and my first exposure to a more rigorous form at that. One caveat: Disliked the textbook, and felt that it dove into difficult problems with inadequate prep. Past exams are your savior in this case!

Course material is quite difficult, but previous years' tests and finals are life saving. Do all of these as part of studying! The textbook was not useful. Barry is a great professor and was always helpful during office hours. I recommend attending the DGDs and if you don't understand a concept early on, get help because they build upon each other.

A very nice professor!

Barry is the man. He tends to teach the hardest pure math courses and he will assign difficult questions, but he is extremely helpful in office hours and DGDs. He's also a very funny and entertaining lecturer (it's like watching a Australian pirate teach your math class!). Definitely recommended!

He's awesome. I never thought I'd be able to laugh in such a difficult class. He's hilarious. Expectations are clear. The class is hard, you can't expect him to magically make it easy. Excellent prof. If you have him, you're lucky. Go to class, it's worth it.

Great prof, past tests help out a lot very easy to learn from.

Barry is a great prof. (He is absolutely hilarious and is very passionate about what he teaches.)The main reason why I loved the course was probably because he taught every concept so clearly. I'm actually going to miss Linear Algebra!

One of the nicest profs out there. Analysis is one of the hardest courses I've ever taken and he actually made it bearable. Extremely helpful, very understanding and a fair marker. Really enthusiastic and funny when he teaches, which is exactly what you need in a course as stressful as analysis.

He gives theorems in class and their proofs, but no examples that relate. His assignments, tests and exam had questions you've never seen before and are very challenging. His lectures and notes are very confusing. But he is helpful when you see him during office hours. He also marks very slowly and is a very hard marker, as he is very picky.

Only study last year tests! His exams and tests are copy paste of last year ones.

Class is introductory linear algebra. It's a really short class. Barry draws it out and makes it really simple and down to earth if you just read his notes for crying out loud. Textbook is alright. If you have problems with mathematics, go talk to him. He is quite nice and approachable.

Barry is a fantastic teacher. He clearly explains all the requisite concepts and encourages class participation. To succeed, do the suggested problems, do your assignments, work through practice midterms, and collaborate with others. If you don't have help from others, definitely go see him during office hours.

Barry is a stallion. He is one of the best teachers I have ever had. Very down to earth and extremely smart. Does he make mistakes sometimes on the board? yes, who doesn't? Those who talk badly about him are probably just sad because they are 2-dimensional beings who skipped class causing them to do badly.

Barry is a fantastic professor! He is very friendly, helpful, and always enthusiastic about the material that is taught. Lectures involve a lot of note taking as he goes quite in depth, but better to have too much than too little. Tests are fair and similar to the past tests that are posted. Provides everything you need to succeed in the course.

He's the best. His lecture notes explain everything and if you still don't understand, he wrote a book on this subject for you to read (only 200 pages). If you mess up on one test, don't worry, he'll just replace it if you do better on the exam. He made a seemingly difficult class like linear seem easy and it was very easy to understand him.

Great Prof!. It's was really hard for me to understand him but honestly i've never seen a guy so helpful during office hours. He is determined and wants his students to succeed. Do the past exams by looking at the solutions and you're good to go

Nice guy, his lectures are difficult to understand but thats because the subject matter is quite abstract. If you read his textbook you should understand the subject. His tests and exams are really really very easy. If you practice that is.

Barry is my favorite teacher. He's funny, and very helpful. He understands that he has a hard course that no one would take for fun so he's there to offer help as much as he can. Office hours are a life saver. I even bring my friends to class and they want to take LA just because he's so much fun. Bit of an accent that takes time to get use to.

In lecture, he doesn't always specify what chapter he's doing or what section. He also doesn't always specify what he's doing an example of. However, He posts previous tests from previous years online which are very similar to the ones he will give you. So make sure you do the practice tests and understand them! He's very helpful and funny!

It's too bad Barry wasn't teaching a class I had interest in. By far the best prof I had in first semester. Unlike other profs, he has a friendly demeanour to him and likes to joke around in class. His course content is quite abstract, so study hard. Final feels exactly like a longer test. Can't recommend him enough for Lin A.

Such a good prof. If you see his name on a course that you need to take, go into his section. Amazing teacher and tests are not to bad. All past tests and exams are posted on his website, so it makes every test that much easier. Best prof ever

Lectures are very long but in really good detail. He made students want to go to class. Very nice guy and an amazing teacher.

Barry is an excellent and funny professor with high teaching ability and very useful office hours! Highly recommend his class if you really like math because his notes are hard to read so that you need to learn carefully and go to his office hour often! Generally, he is an amazing professor that I never see before!

Prof. Jessup is one intelligent professor. He's extremely fluent in the language of Linear Algebra. He writes a lot of notes on the board which are basically mathematical proofs of the theorems. He provides a copy of the textbook "Vector Spaces First" which is extremely helpful when it comes to the abstract content of Linear Algebra.

I love Barry! He's an amazing prof and you can see the passion he has for linear algebra from a mile away. His midterms and final follow the exact same format as the ones from past years that he posts online so study them hard! He lectures pretty quickly but don't be afraid to ask him to slow down or explain something more in depth.

Barry is a great guy! I found the course extremely challenging but he was super helpful in his office hours so make sure to go! Also doing tests from previous years is super useful.

Hated the subject (linear algebra) but never skipped a lecture because I absolutely loved this prof. Was clear and concise, always entertaining.

Just took this in my final year. Jessup is definitely one of the best/nicest profs I've had at the university. Textbook is FREE and fantastic. Lectures are excellent. He has tons of previous exams that repeat themselves. What you are expected to know is crystal clear. With all the material provided, with a little work this class is an easy A.

The course load is heavy, but not particularly difficult math. Some of the concepts were very abstract, but going to office hours was very helpful, and the marking scheme was very favourable. Made lectures fun with many jokes. Would have liked more emphasis on the geometric interpretations of what we were doing but the computation was well conveyed

Barry is the best! He's very animated and fun to listen to while he's teaching. He also works very hard to make time to see his students after class. He has past tests and exams to practice with, and there are certainly no surprises. Also the sliding scale marking scheme for this course makes it far less stressful. All in all I loved this class.

Awesome professor! Charismatic and passionate. Take him if you ever get the chance! Did I mention he's an awesome prof?

Barry is amazing! He really wants all his students to do well, and he posts 5 years back of midterms/finals. If you do them all, you will ace this course. I never listened during the lectures but still enjoyed them because he is so funny and charismatic. 10/10