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I relate to her quite a bit. What helped me understand math was realizing, Math was a language that required an lot of effort to read, understand, write.

These days I find doing complex math with programming far far more understandable. I personally think my biggest blocker was the mathematical notation.

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Same here! I've been studying the mathematical notation Wikipedia page, and being able to "pronounce" or verbalize symbols has made things much more comprehensible.

My current internal tussle is squaring the declarative nature of math with the imperative nature of programming, which I find much easier to reason with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo...

Studying the Greek alphabet was also massively helpful for me. In college I stuck a huge poster of all the Greek letters with their pronunciation above my computer monitor. It makes a huge difference reading an equation when you can say "omicron" or "tau" in your head instead of "weird squiggly thing".

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