the road to learning useful math
Tichy: Not sure if reading a maths book will really be easier than reading those papers. In both cases, you kind of have to grind through it.Wikipedia often helps with the notations.I think learning useful maths is best done by reading up on the stuff you presently need. I have several maths books that I never read because while it seemed like a nice idea, in the end there just wasn't enough motivation for it.