Odom shook his head. “I don’t like numbers,” he said dismissively.”You don’t like numbers? ” Conway asked, slightly aghast.
“I don’t trust them one little bit. I think they’re negative differentiators.” Conway let that pass, and Odom gladly went on to expound upon the geometric properties of two of his discoveries: one, a compound of ten cubes, and another, interwoven triangles, which Odom said could make a self-supporting structure for a building.
“Geometry is the dynamic,” he concluded.
“I love geometry,” said Conway.
He smiled at Odom across the table, the windowless rectilinear room framing their connection. Odom was obviously anxious to get back to his day, and his social worker was waiting down the hall.
“I was drawn to mathematics because of its beauty,” Odom added.
To which Conway replied, “So was I.”
