I think that's perfectly fine -- skip ahead if you like and return to the earlier chapters as needed. Worst case scenario, the amount of stuff you don't underst

I think that's perfectly fine -- skip ahead if you like and return to the earlier chapters as needed. Worst case scenario, the amount of stuff you don't understand will be too much to constantly look up, so you'll have to make a smaller jump. Anyway when learning even more advanced math I think it's totally reasonable to forge your own path through a text (or multiple texts concurrently, if you like)