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by roryokane 5128 days ago
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.