"So — what is a point? Grothendieck’s insight was roughly that a point is a landscape with only one place to stand — or, a little more precisely, a point is a s

"So — what is a point? Grothendieck’s insight was roughly that a point is a landscape with only one place to stand — or, a little more precisely, a point is a space where all functions are constant." http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/17/the-generalist/ http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/17/the-generalist/