[sdiy] SDIY MATH GOALS--need real help!

[Dan Snazelle]

> My advice to Dan and others would be not to set out to "learn math", but
> only electronics.  When something mathematical arises that you don't
> understand, then learn the specific bit of math required to get over the
> hump -- read a wiki, ask a friend, crack a textbook, whatever -- but always
> only in the service of electronics.  This way, the math will slip in by
> osmosis.


one question i have about this good advice is how to TELL what i AM LOOKING AT. (so i can understand a specific bit)

for example I just got the book on non linear electronics from analog devices. It seems full of  great stuff BUT is full of equations.
however how can i tell just from looking at some weird equation what i will need to learn to understand it
? it's not as if they say "this is from algebra 2 or this is from calc"

so  that right there makes the piecemeal approach hard at times.


thanks