That kind of trick is honestly the reason why I don't like reading engineering textbooks. A physicists prose is usually better, sure, but I'm not very good at r

That kind of trick is honestly the reason why I don't like reading engineering textbooks. A physicists prose is usually better, sure, but I'm not very good at reading so that doesn't bother me: What I can't stand is cumbersome notation, which many mathematical (i.e. FEM) engineering books I've read suffer from immensely.