>You would not expect them to read them like a paragraph. You are expect to read them symbol by symbol and unpack from the inner out. As someone who has a bunc

>You would not expect them to read them like a paragraph. You are expect to read them symbol by symbol and unpack from the inner out. As someone who has a bunch of letters before my name because of physics, no. You don't read physics symbol by symbol. You expand those symbols to pages and pages, meditate on those pages and achieve enlightenment on one small aspect of the problem. There is so much implicit state in those equations they are basically meaningless. A nice book that deals with all the implicit state and terrible unclear notation used in physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Classical_Mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...