Why use Computer Modern for mathematical typesetting? (2024-10-06)

It fairly clearly distinguishes some similar-looking characters like the lowercase “v” and the Greek letter nu: v vs ν , lowercase “a” vs Greek alpha: a vs α . The parentheses are a bit taller so without any special effort (e.g. the use of \left(\right) it encloses subscripts and superscripts). e.g. see ( a 3 5 ) . It emulates the look of classical mathematics papers and textbooks. Perhaps math…