/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm a medfag trying to delve into maths in my free time
I need to know if it is normal to struggle a lot with formalism and notation. Most of the difficulties come from "translating" what's written, what does the symbols mean, what's the information in the message
I always feel like I need to reformulate the mathematical expression and statement in a more natural language if I want to understand it

The problem especially struck me when I try to understand a proof. I spend more time trying to understand what means each expressions than to understand the reasoning