damn hard...uses his unique symbols instead of the commons, play independence

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this guy knows too much but can't talk

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Got D from him. Stay away from this course if you don't speak Greek.

waste my money!

stay away if u value ur $$$ and gpa

its either him or turpin...hmmmmm...D or D+? hmmmmmmm

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oh my god!!! he's so difficult and just rambles on.

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Avery hard teacher !!! He thinks he is GOD !

OK this guy is smart, but i'm paying $$$ for him to be evasive, and rude. Stay away from this mal-adjusted person...buddy take some courses on people skills.

He makes you scrap all 'intro' knowledge and learn "HIS" way of logic, rewrites the whole thing too, so the book is useless. his sence of humor is so flat - green horses to explain a complex theorem? And to top it all off, he is the coordina

he dont know how to make ppl understand. besides, he uses his "ambiguous" notes instead of the textbook.

This guy has been sniffing books for way too long. Absolutely no social skills (a must when teaching). Furthermore, his course materials, and tests don't match...avoid this guy at all costs (don't even look at him if he passes you in the hall). Only the public sector could support this one

stay the beep away before he fails your beep, u have to take the same course 10 times WITH HIM to be able to understand what the beep is going on, his notes are garbage, they are only good to be put in ur fireplace during the winter,

AVOID!

THE MOST UNAPPROACHABLE PROF EVER... HE WILL SIMPLY BITE YOUR HEAD OFF IF YOU ASK A QUESTION. HE MAKES A DIFFICULT SUBJECT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT. -RIDE THAT BELL CURVE!!!!

Horrible! asks u to go to text for things' never been taught in lectures. living in his own world expecting u know everything he's been talkin or has not been. AVOID if u can, rather throw my money into grabag, dun waste ur money and time.

he is the worse prof I have ever met in my whole life

if this so called professor can be a professor, everyone can be a professor. terrible speaking, no organized teaching style, always use the most difficult words to describe the concepts. I realy don't understand why york emply this guy. The worst teacher I met in the world.

I've been his student for three weeks and in these weeks he has made my life a living hell. He means well but is just a bad professor. With his thick accent, disorganized teaching style, its a surprise anyone has ever passed his class. I found that the only way to learn is to study with others or by yourself. Don't expect to learn anything from him

Avoid taking this course with him. He explains everything in the most difficult way to understand. He uses his own textbook which is complete garbage, and his tests are difficult.

The guy has definitely put a lot of time into this subject, but he is just not meant to teach it in my opinion. For some reason he uses very different terminology not found in other logic textbooks (he wrote the textbook). The saving grace in this class was that the assignments were worth 30%. A quarter of the class still failed though.

His accent is really hard to understand, No slides or lecture note to study , skeptic personality, Disorganized, Text book is hard to understand (you have to study several times to get the idea of what the course is all about.) , awful lectures.

Poor lectures, not recommended:(

Confusing lectures, and also no lecture notes online, only in class. The textbook he uses is actually his own and is kind of confusing as well, so I would avoid taking this course with him all together.

Avoid taking any course with him , I didnt like his personality at all.

Doesn't know how to teach. He takes easy material and makes it ridiculously hard. His lectures are so confusing and hard to follow. The textbook, which he wrote, is impossible to understand. Only survived by handing in assignments which may or may not have been done independently. At least he cracks a joke once in a while... AVOID!

The ONLY reason he is just teaching in York is he is tenured prof and He CAN impose his views on EECS faculty, He doesnt know how to teach, not respected among students, Dont take any courses with him, try not to deal with him at all ,even for administrative stuff.

Yeah, good luck taking this course and passing with better than C with only his lecture material and textbook. You won't understand what he is saying unless you put extra effort to find out what he is talking about.

WORST PROFESSOR. AVOID HIM. Not accessible, disorganized, confusing textbook and lectures, there aren't any additional resources:( Only positive side was he is knowing well on content that he teaching, but this won't pay off as he making us so confuse.

He's totally out of touch with teaching. He rattles off abstract terms and theorems like they're common knowledge. He refuses to use slides, online notes, or even a mic regardless of classroom size. And of course, he wrote the course textbook, which is a densely packed mess of his own invented jargon.

Don't expect to just breeze by this course... you're going to need to do a lot of extra work

The worst prof that I have had in the two years I have been at york. He may be knowledgeable but does not know how to teach. He teaches like we are already supposed to know what he is talking about. Also, he wrote the book for this course so his book is useless too.

Horrible prof decides to use own textbook so I also know that he's also a horrible author. Book was either written to be hard to navigate xor there was no planning put into it. If you're not in the class but reading this for idk what reason don't buy his book, it's a disorganized mess.

Worst proff ppl take 3 times and still pass with C, Lectures are not worth attending, He doesnt even has answers to his own written textbook and boasts himselfas author lol.

took his class was ruining a student. Tmr is exam , so I have no idea about my grade. but don't take his class. he is the worst . choose the second last even better than George.

Worst professor ever. Unfair marker, rude, and lectures are not helpful avoid at all cost.

Cannot understand anything he says, very unclear speech.

Stay away from this guy. He is rude and unprofessional. He doesnt know how to teach at all and his book and notes were written in a way that u wont be able to understand it. Seriously idk why this guy is still teaching.

Don't take him, really trust me, if you do have him switch while you have the chance

I gave up engineering because of this man. Never take a course with him.

I had a difficult time learning anything in his lectures. I simply got lucky with that grade.

Worst professor I've ever had at York. He could not care less about you, he'd rather be anywhere but class. This guy decided to hold no lecture at all when classes went online, and just decided to use the same jargon filled class notes as a "faithful representation" of what would be taught in class. If you're reading this, save yourself the misery.

He was the worst thing that has happened in my 19 years on this earth. He ruined me mentally, physically, and emotionally. I achieved my A with my own blood, sweat, and tears. He did not teach me one single thing (I only attended the first day of the lecture), his midterms were pointless, his recorded lessons were non-existent during COVID. TY

Cannot deny the fact that he has immense knowledge in his field but for some reason he is extremely rude. The fact that he has written a few books and has spent decades in this field could be the reason for his gigantic ego. very unprofessional, rude, irritating and egoistic. In my opinion hes good but a very unpleasant personality

Easily the worst Professor I've ever had at York. The textbook is written by himself and while he may have immense knowledge on the subject, his teaching style is horrible. His lectures consist of him reading notes copied straight from his textbook and his inability to explain himself in Layman's terms forces you to learn the course for yourself.

Anyone here who rated this man a 5 is lying to your face. Any students who receive a grade higher than B+ in any of his classes are A+ average students. EECS 2001 feels like I'm having a fever dream and nightmare but worse. The course material is hard in and of itself and all he does is read off his slides. He is rude and completely unbothered.

2001 is already pretty hard and this professor doesnt help at all. He teaches from his own textbook in his own way so you cant find any resources online to help and he does a terrible job of explaining things. Hes also extremely rude, avoid at ALL costs.

Very tough and strict prof. People are failing his class. He teaches different content for 2001 compared to the other profs content. His lectures are so confusing and the content he teaches is confusing so i only pickup about half of the stuff he teaches. Had a very bad and regretful experience with this prof.

and absolute disgrace of a prof !!! dont ever chose him. Shoudlnt be paid a penny for teaching the wasteman.

do not take this prof. he is awful. and never give good marks with hard exams

He is probably the worst professor i had the misfortune to come across. gets angry if students are not understanding or tries to ask questions. i thought eecs 2001 was an impossible course but now after taking it with another professor I realized how bad tourlakis was. i completely wasted my money taking his course.

His class is the only class I have ever completely given up in. He is so unapproachable and his lectures make no sense and he just goes on and on not caring if we're understanding him. I don't understand how he made such an easy course into the toughest course I have ever taken. He is awful.

Find a different prof

If you'd like to become mentally burnt out, please do yourself a favor and take 1090 with Tourlakis. Expect to work like a donk the whole semester and end up with a near failing grade. He didn't even curve the marks. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

if you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

Worst prof I've ever had. The first semester was ok, the second semester is so unnecessarily hard because George just talks about containers all class and does not engage the class in his lectures. His lectures are an hour long but always feel a lot longer. His teaching methods are unorthodox and outdated. There are two exams worth a net 75%.

George struggles to answer your questions without confusing you even more. Hard to keep up with his lectures because of that stupid stutter. Bro made his own textbook with his confusing notation and expects us to understand. The PASS tutor has taught me more from 2 sessions than George has the entire course. If you are in this class, good luck.

Horrible prof, horrible lectures, not one person in my class can keep up with his boring lectures and his decomposing self. He is as old as Queen Elizabeth and is still teaching. Bro needs to retire and spend time with his family. He literally said, in class, that he does not care if students learn or not. He just rambles and stutters all class.

Not good with students

This prof is so bad.

He assumes that in a first year course all the students know the topic when it is our first time taking the course on a new topic. He uses terms like "obviously" and makes it difficult to ask questions. He litrelly called the class stupid for not doing good on the Mid term when it was his teaching which dropped the class average.

Did not enjoy this class at all

Look, Ima keep it a buck fifty with y'all, and I only got 75 cents to my name. Do not take this professor. This course is miserable, but this professor makes it even worse. He uses his own textbook, so there are almost no outside resources to help you. I thought I was HIM before taking this course, but was quickly humbled and had to drop.

The professor is really bad at explaining concepts. He often gets grumpy when he is asked a question.

Nothing makes sense

George Tourlakis has an ego. He takes a course (discrete math) which is one of the easiest subjects and made it difficult. He purposely tries to make the class fail through many methods: "If you try to guess a answer, I will give you 0" (his own words), very heavy weighted tests, and that cannot be submitted beforehand. He also yells at questions.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS, YOUR LIFE IS BE CHOPPED INTO MANY PIECES AND EATEN BY GEORGE AND HIS LITTLE DOGHIST TEXTBOOKS THAT HE WRONG HIMSELF. HE WILL TALK SMACK TO YOU WHEN U ASK QUESTIONS AND RAMBLES ABOUT HIMSELF FOR THE NETIRE LECTURE. I WOULD RATHER DROP OUT THAN LISTEN TO HIM TEACHING EVER AGAIN.

He decided that once he got tenure, he should stop caring about his job. He couldn't be bothered to put solutions to his textbook with made-up terminologies that aren't used in the mathematical realm.

This professor's explanation is very hard to understand, try your best to learn as much as possible in advance before actually taking his courses because you will not understanding anything he tells and he does NOT provide anything useful AT ALL!

The worst professor you would encounter in your life.

This professor purposely designed this course so the students fail. He literally said "If you try to guess an answer, I will give you a 0" and the tests are worth so much with very few questions; Basically one mistake can take away 8% of your grade.

I would like to see some solutions to refer to after the exercises (not to use to complete, but rather learn). I would also like to see some feedback on homework and tests.

HE has no respect for his students and think he is smarter than everyone else. The entire class failed his midterm and he blames his terrible teaching practices on the class.

Did not allow student to have his weight of midterm shifted to final exam after his family member died.

"Complete nightmare. Not only was the material presented in a confusing and disorganized manner, but the professor seemed completely disinterested in helping us understand it. He would frequently go off on tangents that had nothing to do with the subject matter, leaving us even more confused than before.

Do yourself a favour and avoid this professor at ALL COSTS. He is a waste of tuition money and has no interest in teaching the standard discrete math curriculum beside his own book.

His textbook is full of errors and makes no sense at all. It is very difficult to read and has no answers to the exercises. He just teaches to collect an easy salary. Sadly he takes his anger out on students since he couldn't make it in the industry because he is too incompetent to work there besides being an academic.

He is creepy and has an attitude towards others. Didn't allow extra time for the midterm when the alarm went off and he was risking students lives.

Does not care about his students and blames the class for failing. Class average at this time is around 38 percent.

Not the type of professor you'd go to ask for help or clear any doubts. Whatever it is, he'd throw rude attitude to anyone in his way with little to no heart. He doesn't try to teach his students in a way they'd understand or learn, and claim his "textbook" has no errors yet his notes are too difficult to understand.

If you got him, drop the course. Its not worth it, trust my word.

Extremely bad professor. Doesn't know how to teach at all. If you you have any other option apart from him, TAKE IT. Only take this prof if you have NO OTHER OPTION!

Trust me u will suffer for sure if you take he's classes

do not take this professor. Avoid at all costs unless you want to fail or barely pass.

He doesn't show any effort or enthusiasm to teach his course in a way that students are able to understand or give any feedback of what we need to improve. He'll make you feel dumb and humiliated when you have doubts to clarify. Additionally, he lacks empathy for anyone. And it's better you don't take his course in winter but in summer instead.

In his lectures, most of the time he just writes random scribbles in the blackboard which aren't always relevant to the course itself. He forces us to read HIS notes that will just leave you with eye strains and migraines because of weird wordings and colors. Plus, he doesn't give us real examples that will help us learn the material better.

Hes old asf.

A student struggling with a course taught by a professor whose teaching style doesn't match her learning style should consider looking for other professors.

Worst Professor at yorku

Worst prof at york

not much to say just run

daddy george

No nice

this professor is on a power trip. he abuses his power as prof and will do anything to make his students upset. avoid at all cost

the first day of class he said all other textbooks except his were mathematically incorrect so not to use them. idk where he thinks he has the authority to say that given he has his phd in comp sci not mathematics. aslo he obnoxious

Setting the Assignment deadlines at 6:00 pm every time is awful. Give no second chance if you missed any of the assignment, no extensions either!!!

u will FAIL

Unorganized, unintelligible lectures. Uses his own incomprehensible textbook. Teaches his own theory of discrete mathematics that no one else knows and there's no resources of. Refuses to do practice questions. Doesn't assign tutorial questions for the TAs so they are completely lost. Took discrete with another Prof and the courses are not the same

Please retire and spend time with your family

First day of class he said every other textbook in the world was wrong, so we can only use his. His textbook is incomprehensible without his lectures. No practice problems and only a few assignments and even fewer will show up on the exam and midterm You somehow gotta prep for everything when assignments barely cover all the material AVOID!!!!!!

Yea the other reviews are pretty accurate... this guy is truly SOMETHING else man. People like him ruin education I wish he'd just get let go or retire already honestly.

whatever you do, avoid at all cost his lectures do not help his notes are filled with alot of gibber and it makes it hard to understand take natasha may at all cost it does not matter how smart you are you will literally triple the amount of effort by taking him just take a look on his website alone and see for yourself please im begging you

You will learn nothing. He requires a bizzare format to answer questions which he never mentions nor teaches. He doesnt provide any practice and his theory doesnt translate to the applications in the tests and assignments If you have him, just drop it and take it in the summer or with any other prof

Barely intelligible lectures Extremely strange marking scheme and horrible textbook Isnt willing to help students and doesnt provide any questions apart from assignments which dont cover most of the material The course itself is hard but he makes it impossible

He can not teach There is nothing to help you nor prepare you. Barely tries to help you, even if you approach him in office hours. Nobody learns anything in this class and its impossible to study for Questions come out of nowhere and its impossible to prepare for. You will spend many hours trying to understand what you learnt but to no avail Avoid

His lectures are confusing and he fails to teach some of the basic pre-requisite knowledge needed for your future courses. He insists on using his textbook which is very confusing and hard to read. To put into perspective how bad he was, over half the class dropped his course and of the remaining students, two-thirds failed. Overall, terrible prof.

AVOID!!!! You will learn nothing I only passed cause of the strike and it was open book His lectures are confusing and he fails to teach some of the basic pre-requisite knowledge needed for your future courses He has expectation but never tells them such as a specifc format never taught. If you try to get help he wont help and TAs are useless. DROP

His lecture are useless cuz you wont learn anything and the marking for test are so random sometime you do good sometime you do bad

If you have other prof option please choose without thinking. Worst prof ever! If you ask questions to him, you did a crime!

His course notes and textbook are completely incomprehensible. He teaches his own kind of set theory making it impossible to find resources online, and says not to use any textbook other than his own. He also never returned the final exam marks for Fall 24 term.

He uses his own set of notes as the textbook, but writes it in an unreadable way, and while teaching he never moves the slides along and just lets it sit while he does his own thing on the board, his assignments are extremely difficult. Never take discrete math with him, take it in summer or with a different professor.

this guy uses his own made up textbook that he wrote himself, to teach about math that isnt even real, yet hes the only professor there is at the university for this class, his tests and exams are completely different from what he teaches in class, and none of the examples from class are useful or anything, switch eng majors if you have to to avoid

All the positive comments are prof George on an anonymous account 😂... All jokes aside though, passing his class is very doable, but at a cost of losing your social life lmfao. Dude claims a certain topic will be on the test, but then whips out questions we've never seen/ aren't even in the textbook.

No denying the course is tough, and the prof sucks, however if you, on your own follow thorugh on the assignments, understand their solutions, memorize theorems&definitions&remarks you should be fine. Tutorials help, if your TA is confused tell them to go to george website and do old questions scroll down->main page->any old 1028. Asking gpt helps

Avoid if possible, any resources you find online surrounding the topic will likely not make sense with what he taught in class.

Why is this relic still teaching? He should retire and spend time with his family.