Bill Peterson

First of all, Bill Peterson is great. He's just such a funny man with such an enthusiasm for math. I do enjoy every time I speak to him. As for the class itself, it is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but it certainly is not an easy class. There is homework due before every class, and the material covered is often not something that you can just speed through. If you do just sit down and read the assigned chapters, though, as you will be told to do at the beginning of the semester, the class is generally fine. Anything you don't understand past that, you can just go ask him about and he will be happy to help you. He is, in my experience, rather receptive to meeting outside of his office hours (which didn't work for me). The exams do push you on what you know, but if you do truly know it, you will mostly be fine. Altogether, it is 100% a class I would recommend taking with Bill Peterson.

First of all, Bill Peterson is great. He's just such a funny man with such an enthusiasm for math. I do enjoy every time I speak to him. As for the class itself, it is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but it certainly is not an easy class. There is homework due before every class, and the material covered is often not somet …Read more

This class was a lot of fun! Was not too difficult but I still felt like I learned a lot. You should definitely study for the exams, but I feel like the courseload was overall very reasonable. Bill is also super accommodating; if you're going through a tough time let him know and he will be nice.

Bill did a great job in this course. This is one of the more difficult Math / Stat classes, but he was very engaging and made it easy to come to lecture every day. The final exam for this class was difficult.