> Mathematicians love greek letters, and if there are a couple of them it's easy enough to read the equation, but you can easily end up with 5 or more in a sing

> Mathematicians love greek letters, and if there are a couple of them it's easy enough to read the equation, but you can easily end up with 5 or more in a single equation, Is there any fundamental reason why Greek letters are harder to read than Latin ones? Harder to write, I can accept, if Greek is not your first language. > What I often do when I want to better understand a formula is to rewrite it by replacing greek letters with plain words. Try actually writing proofs using verbose variable names, and you'll see as clearly as daylight why single-letter variable names are preferred.