Oftentimes people make the mistake, of jumping directly to the formulas when reading mathematical texts. You will not have enough context to parse them! Instea

Oftentimes people make the mistake, of jumping directly to the formulas when reading mathematical texts. You will not have enough context to parse them! Instead, think of a formula like a very dense sentence in a novel. The protagonists are usually introduced in the paragraph before. You are assumed to know their names to make sense of the formula.