I recently got a book on Linear Mathematics. My level of education in mathematics is midway through 8th Grade Geometry. One of the very first chapters mentione

I recently got a book on Linear Mathematics. My level of education in mathematics is midway through 8th Grade Geometry. One of the very first chapters mentioned the word "eigenvalue". I then spent several hours using Google as a dictionary jumping from one mathematical term to the next just to define eigenvalue in a way I could understand with my very lacking mathematical knowledge. It really makes it tiring to fully understand the math when the vocabulary they use to describe it may as well be Elvish to me. So I understand how you feel 100% when the opening sentence mentions 'stochastic manifolds'.