Comment by bonoboTP

Indeed, and I find that my humanities/law-inclined smart friends don't reading math texts is supposed to make you feel this way. They read through a 100 pages of law textbooks and at no part do they feel dumbfounded by a paragraph or get stuck on a page for an hour. It's hard to learn it for sure, but you can read and read and read it. Reading math, on the other hand, is a staccato, a constant stop and go (and flip the pages back). One evening I might only progress 5 pages in the math textbooks because I stop after half a page to draw some sketches, some diagrams. Then I stand up and walk up and down the corridor for 10 minutes thinking things through and whether my current understanding makes sense and adds up to explain what I just read. But they aren't familiar with this mode of reading and working though a text, they think they are stupid or "non-math" people for not getting the meaning instantly, like they would in a book about law or marketing.