The scanner uses some fairly basic trig. to calculate the co-cordinates of a 3D point from a 2D image. The way
the scanner uses maths is not complicated, and the text and animations and this section will help you
understand how the calculations are made.
ONLINE LEARNING
There are good online resources for learning mathematics, I recommend the series of lectures
on linear algebra made by Prof. Gilbert Strang. The video lectures are available for free
from here