[danibx]

Where can I learn about math notation and how to read math symbols expressions? Many times I find some articule that explain some idea using math symbols. And I can understand nothing. This week I was looking for a method to calculate the distance between two geolocation coordinates. Át. First the article used math symbols to explain and I could understand nothing. I didnt even know how to Google that "enigma". But a few lines below there was the same algorithm, but This time it was written in Javascript. And it was very easy and simple to understand. How to learn "math syntax and grammar"?

[roryokane]

Good question. Some resources I found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols. It is more of a reference than a tutorial. It also includes only symbols, not other features of notation such as division lines and superscript/subscript.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/33152/is-there-a-reference.... Someone with a similar, more specific question, looking for a dictionary of what to name variables. Nobody found any such dictionary.

http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/maths/notation.html. A decently large list of notations. But it doesn’t have, for instance, the notation of calculus, and you must run a web search yourself to learn more about what a listed notation means.

Hopefully in conjunction these resources will help. But it’s too bad that there isn’t anything quite like what you’re looking for; I would be curious to read such a tutorial, too.