Solitude Memes

The royal "we" of mathematical proofs! Nothing says confidence like a lone mathematician dramatically gesturing to an imaginary audience while writing "Let us now consider..." in their notebook at 3 AM. Their only collaborators? A concerning amount of caffeine and the ghost of Euler judging their notation. The plural pronoun creates the illusion that mathematical discovery is a collaborative effort and not just someone having an existential crisis in front of a chalkboard.