Today, I started an experiment together with the local specialised secondary school. I'll be taking care of two of their brightest students, meeting them roughly once a week, and taking them on a charge through algebraic topology. At the far end shimmers knot theory and other funky applications; and on the way there, I hope for many interesting spinoffs and avenues.

They got, today, Armstrong's Basic Topology, and an extract from the German topology book by J