Thank you! I've had this same feeling for a long time. It strikes me as odd that probably a lot of the same people that would find it unacceptable to write cryp

Thank you! I've had this same feeling for a long time. It strikes me as odd that probably a lot of the same people that would find it unacceptable to write cryptic C code with one-letter variable names, find typical math notation/jargon to be completely fine and legible. If code is so important that we go out of our way to make it comprehensible to future maintainers, why don't we have the same feelings about math? (which I would argue is much more important for people to comprehend, seeing as how it's the core foundation of all of science) Personally, I'm really into physics, so I've always really wanted to like math so that I could delve deeper into the subject more easily. It's not that I'm terribly bad at it, but most math texts are so obscenely terse and cryptic, that it makes you wonder whether the authors are actually even trying to teach people about what they're talking about...