[hcoyote]

Probably the first thing to do is find a copy of Lawrence Chang's Handbook of Spoken Mathematics (also referenced in a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284052)

This has been great for helping me figure out what to even call various symbols so I can then go look up what they actually intend you to do.

[toolslive]

When I studied math at the university (80s), I never attended classes, and so I didn't know how to read quite a few symbols. I got laughed at during oral examinations, (but no marks were reduced for this). This book would have been really handy!

Anyway, I still read some symbols differently.

[brango]

Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for so long. It's always been a pain to study something like graph theory, graphics, crypto, etc. without even being able to read the formulae.

[sulam]

This is pretty good!