Pop Mathematics

No it doesn't.

This exactly.

You sound interested in your idea of mathematics, rather than mathematics.

It's only cringe if you don't know what you're talking about

Selfish bump hoping for a response to my question here:

I have taken Calculus up to Differential Equations. Can somebody confirm this as being a good introduction to Topology?

The Road to Reality by Penrose

It's unbelievably enlightening, even with a math background.

Munkres' Topology is super accessible with the background you mention.

Seconding . Munkres is widely regarded as a really good intro to topology.

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Guy who posted Munkres' earlier. Tbh, before getting into point set topology I'd recommend learning some intro to real analysis stuff. It gives you a specific topology to think about (metric topology on \mathbb{R}) which makes the abstract way less mystifying. But Munkres was my intro to topology book that I took concurrently with into to real analysis a couple years ago and it served me well

The Millennium Problems has a pretty good overview of several different areas of math, and has very good intros to calculus, topology and group theory while it explains the problems.