Approachable, sincere professor. Knows his material, good pace. Considering the other math prof's at berkeley, this man is definitely above average. Only problem i saw is that he sometimes lost control of his 400+ person class.

You can understand him! He is also very easy paced compared to the other Profs I've had.

His tests are really fair. If you know the material well, then it is not hard. Sometimes, his lectures can be repetitive and focuses on the simple examples. But it is a really good course and he knows how to write tests.

Midterms are OK if you can finish all practice exam problems~ not really clear notes~

Awesome professor with a cool accent! He cares about his students and is very approachable and friendly. Very clear with thorough explainations (got him a little behind sometimes), great teacher and great person. Tests are fair but not necessarily easy.

Gives very good lectures

great

A fine teacher of mathematics who is always willing to answer more questions. Would like to see more theory in his class, though.

zworski's a cool guy. spiffy accent, good at explaining material/answering questions. underhanded jokes make class amusing. results may vary when it comes to exams, can't quite seem to get the difficultly level right.overall an excellent prof with a sense of humor, especially for the math department

Definitely a cool professor. Cool accent and wit make class fun. Teaches with powerpoint, so he's sometimes not as detailed as I'd like him to be. Overall a great professor.

Really great professor, and math 53 has some fun and interesting material. He's funny sometimes, and don't worry, his accent doesn't detract from the lectures. He's a cool guy.

my grade got screwed over by the first midterm, which was way too easy, but I made silly mistakes that brought me to the bottom of the curve =( Hopefully the curve will turn out nicer other semesters, because he is a pretty friendly professor that encourages students to ask questions.

first of all, his accent is sooo cute. anyways, his first midterm screwed me over because the curve was so high and i made stupid mistakes. however, the 2nd midterm/final were more difficult and gave people the chance to really show their stuff. basically, if you do the hw you'll do well. i got an A in the class after getting a C+ on midterm 1.

Pretty organized lectures. The difficulty of exams varied a lot. The final exam was annoying, since a typo significantly changed a problem and wasted a lot of time. Powerpoints were sometimes nice, sometimes not - good to refer to for lecture notes, but often included typos or mistakes. Do the homework. On the whole, not a bad professor.

Most reviews are accurate. he is an entertaining lecturer. midterm difficulties were unpredictable. accent is not that bad for native-speakers. i thought the lectures were good, but the MTs tested beyond the basics. DO the practice midterms religiously! MT questions LOOK hard but i realized most needed a "trick" to finish.

Since I was retaking this course, I pretty much understood everything. His lectures and exams covered what the book covered, unlike Kirby. His exams are similar to the practice exams he posts. Make sure to know them! Difficulty of exams was dramatic from 1st MT to 2nd MT and final. It isn't hard to do well. Nearly everything is in the book.

Powerpoint not really usefull. Accent is farily easy to understand. The practice midterms that he gave were very usefull. Many times similar problems appeared on the exams. The class was not bad overall. I would recommend him.

good lecturer, funny and engaging. enjoyable if you like math. that said, he made this class a million times more of a pain than it had to be by writing ridiculous exams that were way harder than the homework, except the first, which was about right but he said it was too easy because to many people did well. i thought education was for learning.

Fun teacher. Fair exams. Good sense of humor.

He's a pretty straightforward lecturer, and he's a pretty funny guy--but he seemed to have lost his sense of humor by the end of the semester. He also seemed to mess up more easily while lecturing. He's also not the best test-writer. The first midterm was way too easy...and then the next midterm and the final had way too many problems.

The material can be difficult sometimes, but it's just 3D geometry for most of the semester...easy if you're good at picturing stuff in your head. Lately, though, he's taken to using an overhead projector, and he ALWAYS blocks it while he's writing. Other than that, he's very good at making abstract math understandable with examples.

He'd frequently block the overhead projector w/ his shadow & wrote with 1/3 of the transparency outside the viewable glass surface. Then he'd yank the sheet away right after unblocking the view. His midterms were *somewhat straightforward, but computationally heavy & far too long for the allotted 50 minutes. Took a lot of the fun out of Math 53.

Goes over previous lecture at the beginning of the next one--in detail. Essentially does each lecture twice. His tests are horrible. 56% midterm averages, probably a lot worse on the final. The subject is interesting, he explains things just fine (if you can sit through it twice) but his tests were sadistic. Most traumatizing class ever

His lectures are good for reinforcing the basics of the book and he goes over more complex examples. Seems like an all around nice guy, funny at times, got cranky and more impatient at toward the end of the semester though. Still, recommend him...and his dog.

Funny British accent. Very interesting course material and his presentation is clear and helpful. Basically, everything about the class is great except that his tests are impossible. Very low averages that do NOT separate those who know SOME stuff from those who know NO stuff. Take 53 with another professor but don't rule out sitting in on Zworski.

Professor Zworski was very clear, very detailed and extremely good in his explanations. His tests were quite hard but the class was less intense than 1B and he was definitely a very fun professor to have. I would definitely take him again!

His lecturing style isn't all too great. He tends to review what he covered previously for the first 5 to 10 minutes of lecture. He wasn't very clear in teaching us line/surf. integrals, Stokes' & Divergence thms, etc, the most important part of 53. I ended up going to GSI OH right before final. His exams tend to be a bit difficult.

Decent prof. Uses slideshows and projector/chalkboard to teach. Fairly clear lectures and manageable tests.

Great Professor! Lectures very clear. I always knew what to expect on the midterms and final. Also final was fairly easy. Also a very funny and amiable professor. I would definitely take this class again, if I had to that is!

I had Dr. Zworski for two classes twenty years ago when he was a postdoc and I was a freshman. He was a great lecturer and extremely passionate about his subject. His classes were excellent preparation for my later studies in mathematics and career as a mathematician.

He's a really great professor!

His sense of humor made the lectures awesome!

Zworski gives very good lectures. He starts off by reviewing what was covered last time every single lecture, and then slowly and clearly moves on to the new topic. Gives lots of examples, even though some are tough. You can learn a lot from lecture if you follow along very closely.

Clear, well-organized, and interesting lectures. He adds some sass here and there which gets the whole class chuckling. Starts every lecture with a short review and takes care to explain how the information from the lecture fits in with the rest of the class. Tests are difficult but fair. Gives test grades back within 24 hours.

he was a great teacher and his lectures were very useful. his exams were straight from lectures and they were just testing your understanding.

Great lecturer, gives really good summaries of the book. The second half of his lectures tend to be quite dense proofs or examples, but the first half is always introduction to new topics with easy examples. The quizes were weekly but not too difficult if you did the homework.

Prof Zworski was fun and approachable. Didn't do as well for the class but enjoyed my semester with him.

Absolutely hilarious. Even though the content was tough, he explains it quite well and his humor spices things up and makes the class enjoyable. Tests are hard but reasonable, doesnt allow a cheatsheet though. Helpful in office hours but if dont know your stuff he will probably humiliate you in front of everyone else there. Would recommend 10/10.

You can learn so much just by watching him work through examples in lecture, the way he finds clever shortcuts to make complex integrals look much simpler. He also ties concepts back to their analogs in single variable calculus, so thats super helpful for understanding. If you go to office hours twice, hell know your name. Just a lovable guy.

Prof. Zworski is one of my favorites. I learned to say "zed" instead of "zee" as well as how to derive some wave functions. He is a funny and passionate lecturer who cares about his students.

Loved his sense of humor and I was always eager to go to lecture. Makes you work for your grade though - midterm 1 and 2 had 80% averages but final was 50%. Average grade was around a B. I am a math major so I could be a bit biased but I think most of my peers enjoyed his class.

Chill professor, didn't attend many lectures but he did crack some good jokes when I was actually at class. Exams felt fair and practice exams that he gave were extremely reflective of what would be on the actual exam. Gave very generous curves on exams (raw scores seemed be curved to a B average rather than the course average of B-).

Overall, a good professor. For the most part, he was good at explaining problems and his tests were curved generously. However, he would sometimes dive into crazy proofs that weren't necessary to learn and some examples weren't explained too clearly. He was certainly very funny and would sometimes like to make fun of students.

I might be biased because I ama math major and took a mutivariate course before but I honestly loved Prof Zworski and his class. The midterms very pretty easy/fair and then he caught eveyone off guard by giving one of the hardest finals (average 50%). Zworski also has a hilarious sense of humor and is pretty fun to see lecture!

He's humorous. Has a terrific accent

His tests are pretty straightforward and are similar to his practice exams. Definitely less homework than other math professors. Be sure to read the textbook though cause his lectures can be a bit hard to follow.

His lectures are very fun. He doesn't record lectures, so you (or a friend) should make an effort to go. There are weekly quizzes on Fridays which are not bad and sometimes include extra credit. The practice midterms are very similar to the actual ones (pre-curve avg. is still ~50%) but problems become easy once you understand a particular nuance.

Zworski is a great guy. Really cares about students. Makes his class insanely hard on purpose, but never unfair, and the curve reflected that. He respects hard work most of all and will be blunt about it, but once again never unfair. Funny guy, lectures are a bit too abstract which leave you kinda confused on the homework

Great lecturer, and expects student participation. Very friendly and answers questions thoroughly. Attendance is not mandatory, but gives extra credit on HW if you attend. Exams are almost identical to practice exams. Lots of points for correct answer, less partial credit than most math classes. Make sure to do practice problems before exams.

Very nice professor who genuinely cares about his students. He would welcome questions during lectures & was *unintentionally* funny. Lectures were sometimes confusing (but you can always use the textbook!). Weekly quizzes graded on effort, our GSI was also very nice. Exams (so far) have been very similar to practice exams so study off those. GL :)

Quite a test heavy course, but if you put the work in and go to office hours, discussion, lecture and study on your own, they are definitely manageable. Very kind and interesting guy who expects participation in class and really wants to see people work hard. Funny guy as well

This professor is good for those who are independent learners. I spent my time studying from the textbook carefully, which he follows closely anyway. The few lectures I did go to he added interesting new perspectives - seems like most people here became complacent with how chill they were. Lots of material provided and bins were adjusted

Professor Zworski is great at bringing complicated and abstract math topics into the real world with physical examples. His commentary during his lectures is never boring to the trained ear.

Lectures were solid, not as bad as other reviews suggest. More of an emphasis on theory and derivations (arguably the most important part), so example problems shown in lecture were often relatively simple, but nothing felt too unreasonable. The final was tricky but exams are essentially identical to the practice exams (in content and difficulty).

Lectures were actually pretty decent, honestly was a great supplement to the homework/textbook imo, and it really helped you understand the actual mechanics behind some of the things he was teaching. Pretty hard exams but very similar to practice tests. Wants students to work hard, very approachable in office hours if you know your stuff.

I think he's good. He's clearly very good and loves math, so his lectures are honestly pretty engaging. Note that he does do proofs of theorems, so just don't copy those. HW problems are not graded but honestly way harder than anything you see on exams. Practice exams are super similar to real exams. Just go to class honestly half the people don't.

Attend his lectures to get a good laugh and watch derivations/proofs for important concepts. Learned a lot just doing homework, reading textbook/watching YT, and GOING TO DISCUSSION. Tests were tricky but similar to practice and the final had a pretty generous curve. Overall, just go to lecture/discussion and you will be fine!