Not really. If you look at the C code there are a bunch of executable steps that are straightforward to carry out, but it gives no clue at all about why they d

Not really. If you look at the C code there are a bunch of executable steps that are straightforward to carry out, but it gives no clue at all about why they do what they do. A human after reading them doesn't come out any smarter than a compiler. The equation on the other hand makes reasonable sense if you know something about stochastic PDE's. Of course just looking at the symbols without any context won't help much, but you can read the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes_equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes_equation That in turn might not be easily understandable either, but it's written in terms of well-known concepts that they teach in math classes. You can get textbooks about that stuff and all that sort of thing. At the end of the day, making sense of it will take a level of mental effort comparable (not by coincidence) to taking a couple of years of math classes (starting from basic calculus) and doing all the assignments. Making the equations look more like code won't help with that. It's about developing understanding and facility with the mathematical ideas.