Having worked in mathematics for 10+ years, I can tell for sure, that the least problem you will face when trying to understand Calabi-Yau manifolds are the nam

Having worked in mathematics for 10+ years, I can tell for sure, that the least problem you will face when trying to understand Calabi-Yau manifolds are the naming conventions. Unwrapping the last term alone is a multi-year endevour if you start from scratch: > [A] manifold is a locally ringed space, whose structure sheaf is locally isomorphic to the sheaf of continuous (or differentiable, or complex-analytic, etc.) functions on Euclidean space [IR^n]. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold#Mathematical_definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold#Mathematical_definiti... Note that definition, does barely use inventor's names and is still very dense and hard to unwrap. I never found naming conventions to be a notable problem.