[ancarda]

Thanks for the link, I skimmed through the Direct Proof PDF - it seems very complicated. I have done some Discrete Math which I found fairly understandable once I went over it a few times as I could link it back to computer science. It was kinda like learning a very terse programming language.

[khedoros1]

One of the things that I used to do with knew math ideas was to write a program that illustrates them, then tweak values in the program to get a better intuitive feel for how the math works.

I usually come to understand the concept through experimentation that way, and from that point the actual notation doesn't matter as much (although it's still like reading a foreign language, to a certain degree).