As another scientist I have to <i>strongly second this</i>.  Some things might take real work on your part to understand though.  Even within different fields of mathematics there are difficulties in understanding (complaint about this: <a href="http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion104.html</a>).