Comment by defgeneric

It's actually not smart at all. Replacing the letters in the Roman alphabet with Greek letters based on superficial resemblance is not any different from replacing the "R" with "Я" when writing about anything Russian-related (you see it stupidly used in book covers, t-shirts, etc).

How does this do anything to honor the cultural legacy of Greece? Perhaps we could honor the legacy of 19th century mathematics by using Fraktur characters when they resemble Latin ones?

When people who can read Greek are telling you it's bad taste maybe take their word for it! Not dang.

What you're really saying is that the Greek alphabet (and by extension its language community) is so insignificant compared to Latin that the cost of potential misrecognition is so low that it can be disregarded. This is chauvinism, not "honoring Greek mathematics"!