I don't mean the symbols themselves, but how each member was defined and the history behind it.

It's like watching a Marvel movie and not only knowing the plot of the current movie but also the deep history of each character and their relationships with other characters.

I assume the paper didn't come out of nowhere and it's based on "the shoulders of giants".

Pretty sure it's much harder than Chinese. The depth and abstraction of the concepts involved and the density of these concepts in these lines vastly eclipses anything in any natural language

It would take a long path to understand it.. and the path would need to be filled with good resources.