This might be an interesting discussion in its own right -- reasoning about one's audience when selecting names. You could talk about how the "average programmer" audience would probably appreciate descriptive variable names over ones that mathematicians/scientists. would be more comfortable with, but that the community who writes this sort of code most often would better understand mathematical conventions in naming. 

I would probably err on using the math names myself, so that they bind more closely to the actual models you are representing.