Why are science majors able to read Greek (without necessarily understanding?) Not my usual content, but why not. PS: many letters have multiples uses in math and science; i only touched on one each. Also, my pronunciation of the letters here was going back and forth between English and French; force of habit. . As to why i know these letters, my first two years in college are what’s called ‘Maths sup(érieures)’ and ‘Math spé(ciales)’ in French, ie we went through an intensive program of some 20