Peter Bank

While I agree Prof. Bank's accent and handwriting are a strain, his approach to stochastic problems simplifies the subject. Look at Prof. Karatzas notes on the same subject, you won't understand as much as with Prof. Bank's. Mathematical concepts which are not key to understand the course are left untouched, unless a student asks for an explanation or a proof that he will happily give you. Most rewarding are the Homework he give away each, especially the one you have to hand back in and solve in full. They make you understand the subject and appreciate his style of teaching "right to the point". Midterms and Finals are based on materials seen in class or in homeworks, or even in review sessions before exams. His intentions are not to put low grades but to have everyone understand the fundamentals of the class. I would recommend this class to graduate students or students who are comfortable in maths (finished Calulus, Algebra etc..)

I took him for Calc IV. HE is a nice guy, although his writing is kind of messing. Do not ask him trivial or stupid questions, though. His Calc IV class is decently and reasonably good and you learn hte material well.Tests are reasonable but do not expect them to be like his hw problems. He incorporates information from his notes, too. Great professor!:)

Peter Bank is a nice guy, but that doesn't make up for the fact that he can't teach the subject. He is hard to understand, his handwriting is hard to read, and he often gets...flustered (for lack of a better word), when writing on the board. He also tends to overly complicate what should be a simple subject. The problem sets are hard, but if you spend enough time on them and actually get the answer they can be quite fulfilling. If you don't get something in class or on either of the midterms, he will be happy to spend time to explain it. He is very approachable, he just can't to a class

Absolutely awful professor. I would strongly recommend that you not take this course. He is extremely confusing and difficult to understand. He cannot explain anything and he shows no passion in teaching. IThe class was much harder than it should have been. The TA or whoever grades the tests and homework has no compassion or sympathy. If you need to take this class for any reason, take it with another professor. If you need to take this class with Peter Bank, find a really good tutor and don't even bother going to class.

8 hrs week, more like 20 hrs during exam weeks.

If you can get past his thick accent, poor hand writing, and difficulity explaining complex problems, his class is tollerable. He is a very nice guy, but its hard to make up for his boring lectures. He only expects you to know material out of the book, so if all else fails, save time by studying the sections in the book and skip the lectures.

He has an accent, which you can get used to after awhile. Handwriting is kinda bad. He will take the time to explain things to you that you don't get but the thing is he can't teach well to begin with. I don't think it's his fault really. He uses examples from the book so there is really no point in going to class at all. His midterms are horrible. I mean really bad. You will fail. We have like the lowest class avg out of all the calc II classes. Do not take this class unless you are an ace at calc.

A nightmare. Difficult at best to understand what this man is doing at the board. His English is terrible, his handwriting is sloppy, and he just mumbles through his explanations of things. Eventually, I just stopped going to class because it was a waste of time. He posts a syllabus online and teaches pretty much parallel to the textbook which means that if you don't mind learning math by the book, you can get along just fine, as the text is decent.

Two extremely hard midterms and an even harder final. Homework every week and WebWorks (you'll learn to hate it). Good Luck!!!

Peter Bank is a nice guy. That said, you'll learn much better from the text book. His lectures are quite useless even when you get over his messy writing and german accent. the homework and tests tend to ask more interesting questions so you do learn from them but if you're looking for an easy A, Bank may not be for you.