Gregory's Server@lcamtuf, Chapter 1 defines numbers, some common mathematical notation, and a few other things that give you hope that you can read this book.
You might get through Chapter two.
By Chapter 3, you,put it on the shelve with all your other Springer textbooks.
@jpgoldberg @lcamtuf Springer books are like the math entries on Wikipedia. They’re both places where people are in a competition to make themselves as baroque and not just esoteric, but practically occult as possible.
Now excuse me, I have to finish replacing the word “one”with“unity”