Memorable Math Teachers

When I look back at my past math experiences, good, bad, and mediocre, there are a few teachers and instructors that stand out among the many I have had.
Among them is my old math 12 teacher, a truly brilliant lady with terrible breath. Aside from the bad breath, most students that had her really liked her and found her to be an effective teacher of mathematics. I on the other hand did not enjoy her teaching style nearly as much, I did however enjoy playing pacman on my graphing calculator during class. As someone who really understood and was quick at math I found her style to be rather juvenile and slow, especially for math12, a class which should be taken by serious math students.  I would often compare her to a kindergarten teacher, and as a result of this painfully slow pace I would quickly lose all of my interest and ended up doing rather poorly, poorly is of course a relative term here for I am sure that many others would have been very grateful for my mark.
Another teacher that stands out is a professor here at UBC. He also, is a brilliant man and it is easy to tell that he really loves what he is researching and teaching. In his class we would do the usual things one might expect to do in a university math class but, on top of that he was very open to class discussions and he would present open ended and new/current problems which excited in myself a renewed interest and love for math. As well as these things we also would do more that just written homeworks and were able to do exciting fun projects and build various models. Maybe it was because I hadn't done anything like this in a math class for a long time, but this was a very good class and I always looked forward to attending it.