It's probably a silly question but it interests me when was the convention of writing proofs in first person plural introduced?
Are here any historical examples of a different POV for proof writing?
It's probably a silly question but it interests me when was the convention of writing proofs in first person plural introduced?
Are here any historical examples of a different POV for proof writing?
From what I could gather from some google searches (1, 2, 3-pdf, and Krantz has a good book on writing mathematical prose) the most common reasons for using we instead of I are:
I couldn't find when a the shift in writing style occurred, but I do recall reading papers by Euler in which he uses I. Though, I cannot read Latin and these were translated.