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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols These might help a bit. But as someone with similar problems, I'm beginning to think there's no real solution other than thousands of hours of studying.

williamstein 8y ago
"There is no Royal Road to Geometry." -- Euclid I've spent time studying number theory (Ph.D. Berkeley, wrote 30+ papers and 3 books), and it really is very deep. If understanding some notation or mathematics doesn't come easily to you, that's normal. It often takes Ph.D. students years of fulltime study just to understand a single research paper. This is because mathematics is a very deep subject, certainly much deeper than everything else I've encountered in academia. The good part is that pretty much all mathematics does make sense, and can be truly 100% understood if you're willing to invest enough time, unlike the case with many other things in life! An added bonus is that much of mathematics is also incredibly beautiful, when you understand it. Listening to lectures by excellent speakers (many are on youtube now) helps a lot.
- rocqua 8y ago
  > pretty much all mathematics does make sense, and can be truly 100% understood if you're willing to invest enough time Inter-universal Teichmüller theory seems to be a counter-example.
  - williamstein 8y ago
    To me it is an example, not a counterexample, because the IUT papers have been completely understood and judged to be incorrect by recent fields medalist Peter Scholze (and several other top mathematicians).
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westurner 8y ago
There are a number of Wikipedia pages which catalog various uses of symbols for various disciplines: Outline_of_mathematics#Mathematical_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_mathematics#Mathematical_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_mathematics#Mathema... List_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols List_of_mathematical_symbols_by_subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols_by_subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols_b... Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathemat... Latin_letters_used_in_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_letters_used_in_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_letters_used_in_mathemat... For learning the names of symbols (and maybe also their meaning as conventially utilized in a particular field at a particular time in history), spaced repetition with flashcards with a tool like Anki may be helpful. For typesetting, e.g. Jupyter Notebook uses MathJax to render LaTeX with JS. latex2sympy may also be helpful for learning notation. … data-science#mathematical-notation https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#mathematical-notation https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#mathema...

williamstein 8y ago

"There is no Royal Road to Geometry." -- Euclid I've spent time studying number theory (Ph.D. Berkeley, wrote 30+ papers and 3 books), and it really is very deep. If understanding some notation or mathematics doesn't come easily to you, that's normal. It often takes Ph.D. students years of fulltime study just to understand a single research paper. This is because mathematics is a very deep subject, certainly much deeper than everything else I've encountered in academia. The good part is that pretty much all mathematics does make sense, and can be truly 100% understood if you're willing to invest enough time, unlike the case with many other things in life! An added bonus is that much of mathematics is also incredibly beautiful, when you understand it. Listening to lectures by excellent speakers (many are on youtube now) helps a lot.

rocqua 8y ago
> pretty much all mathematics does make sense, and can be truly 100% understood if you're willing to invest enough time Inter-universal Teichmüller theory seems to be a counter-example.
- williamstein 8y ago
  To me it is an example, not a counterexample, because the IUT papers have been completely understood and judged to be incorrect by recent fields medalist Peter Scholze (and several other top mathematicians).
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westurner 8y ago

There are a number of Wikipedia pages which catalog various uses of symbols for various disciplines: Outline_of_mathematics#Mathematical_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_mathematics#Mathematical_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_mathematics#Mathema... List_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols List_of_mathematical_symbols_by_subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols_by_subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols_b... Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathemat... Latin_letters_used_in_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_letters_used_in_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_letters_used_in_mathemat... For learning the names of symbols (and maybe also their meaning as conventially utilized in a particular field at a particular time in history), spaced repetition with flashcards with a tool like Anki may be helpful. For typesetting, e.g. Jupyter Notebook uses MathJax to render LaTeX with JS. latex2sympy may also be helpful for learning notation. … data-science#mathematical-notation https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#mathematical-notation https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#mathema...