"One thing to note is that there is no universally agreed upon convention for denoting math objects." This is the thing that trips me up most often. It's espec

"One thing to note is that there is no universally agreed upon convention for denoting math objects." This is the thing that trips me up most often. It's especially a problem when the author believes that their notation and variables are universal and therefore don't need to be defined. I've spent a lot of time these past few months trying to "reverse engineer" calculations done in research papers to verify their notation. Textbooks and theses generally do a better job of defining everything because they aren't as concerned about document length.