New ask Hacker News story: How does anyone learn advanced math. so hard

How does anyone learn advanced math. so hard
4 by paulpauper | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I am trying to read papers and answer on stack overflow and despite many years of education and other learning, still find it immensely hard to follow most of the stuff. Beyond basic calculus and linear algebra, it's close to impossible to understand anything. The main problem is that mathematicians tend to omit a lot of steps, as those are taken for granted, which means days or even weeks spent trying to recreate the results, even with my background knowledge and the internet it's very hard to do, if not impossible in some cases. Sometimes the most important steps are omitted that are the entire crux of the problem yet trivial steps are included in detail. All these viral posts about "how to learn math" and I don't think anyone quite grasps what this entails if you plan to go beyond calculus or linear algebra. Basically you're stuck, and maybe 2-3 people can help you who actually know this stuff or are patient enough to help.

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