Most of what I've seen lately is queueing theory, markov processes or statistics, and yes, I have seen notation used for hundreds of pages at a time and I've se

Most of what I've seen lately is queueing theory, markov processes or statistics, and yes, I have seen notation used for hundreds of pages at a time and I've seen these symbols used to mean different things (not including partial differential). One of the books I read recently[0] has a table of where symbols and formulae are first defined. It's a godsend. But I would prefer self-describing names to a lookup table. I don't put comments at the top of each file of code with such a table. [0] https://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073401323/information_center_view0/index.html https://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073401323/informatio...