How does one end up reading topology at age 7? Were your parents math professors or something? Or were you just a very mathematically curious 7 year old?
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I learnt to use a computer very early and I had few friends, so I would spend my days reading Wikipedia. The maths and physics articles for some reason drew me in particularly, and some times I'd also look at other sources. But really, I didn't understand most of it.
Ahh. I can relate, in that case. I thought you meant that you were seriously studying from topology textbooks.
Not same commenter, but we just went to the library as a family every 3 weeks. Around that age I was bored with the childrens section, so I tended to pick books on computing and quantum field theories :)
I ditched the math side soon for the computing section though.