This thread would be more informative if the post author had said _what_ he was trying to read. Most math is written to communicate with other mathematicians,

This thread would be more informative if the post author had said _what_ he was trying to read. Most math is written to communicate with other mathematicians, so if he grabbed some random paper off of ArXiv then it's not at all surprising he found it hard to read. It also makes a difference if he's trying to actually learn about a subject, or just to apply some formulas without necessarily understanding him. Math is written differently for specialist and beginner audiences, with the very terse "CRC Handbook of X" off on some other axis.