They find the problem of financing new instruments very hard going.
I think that many readers with ' ' some knowledge of undergraduate mathematics ' ' would find these chapters hard going, unless their knowledge happens to be of the right sort, of course.
I am slightly surprised that the terminology used is quite technical and yet there is no glossary so a novice might find some of it quite hard going.
It was hard going, though.
Even this reviewer, who has a past studying the functional neurophysiology of the prefrontal cortex before he turned to ethics, found some sections of these chapters hard going.
The collection is hard going.
The book is rather hard going though.
Indeed, as stimulating as these volumes are, they are often very hard going.