I discovered Martin Gardner's Scientific American column collections in the local (UK) library as a schoolboy in the early 80s. This got me thinking about topol

I discovered Martin Gardner's Scientific American column collections in the local (UK) library as a schoolboy in the early 80s. This got me thinking about topological ideas, and hypercubes for instance, almost without realising it was maths. My family weren't particularly science-focussed, so the fact that the (fairly small) library had several books like this was a real godsend.