https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/ What can a grandfather pass on about mathematics besides formulas? And what can mathematics tell us about the lives we share? en Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:04:33 GMT https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/matrices/ https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/matrices/ <p>A conversation about matrices, the view from the top of a pyramid, and a grandfather who wants his grandson to trust a hunch.</p><p>How a grandson learns to trust a hunch</p><blockquote>Hunting for chestnuts, nuts, and little bits of colored glass in the grass when he was small. That was the first lesson you gave him in trusting a hunch, in seeing in the dark. Perhaps it was the most important one.</blockquote><p><a href="https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/matrices/#p-390">Read from this passage</a></p> Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:51:05 GMT https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/mathematics/ https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/mathematics/ <p>A conversation that begins with the nature of mathematics and ends with family life, grief and the quiet steadiness of work.</p><p>When the conversation turns to family</p><blockquote>That’s almost it. An act of heroism lasts a moment. The hardest one of all is the life we lead as a family. It’s the one nobody sees.</blockquote><p><a href="https://a-point-and-a-world-dialogues.deed.page/en/mathematics/#p-105">Read from this passage</a></p> Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:51:05 GMT