I seek solice in a quote I seem to remember being attributed to Van Nuemann (sp?
the guy who was in on the very first computers and the a-bomb )
The sense of it was roughly: "You don't so much come to understand mathematics ,
rather, you just sort of get used to it"

PS.  When I laid this sage nugget on my son, then twelve, he simply responded, "
I don't what to learn math and I don't want to get used to it either!"


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>     Most of the people here cannot imagine how ignorant of math us non-math
> types can be. Someone just posted an explanation of those terms that I was
> completely unable to follow. It makes assumptions of knowledge that I just
> don't have. I am sure it is clear to someone, but not me. I may never
> understand vector math if I have to start at that level.
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