What's you background? What kind of math did you learn by looking at mathematical symbols rather than natural language explanations? I have hard time envisioning how such a leaning process would work.

There are several pretty obvious problems with mathematical notation. - Meaningless one-letter names. - Meaning of notations is usually highly context-dependent. (Exponentiation and matrix inverse operation are denoted in exactly the same way, for example.) - A lot depends on arbitrary conventions. - People rarely explain how notations work syntactically. It's all ad-hoc,learn by example.