I was always fascinated with pure math, but lately I've been increasingly more interested on applications of math (preferably algebra/topology but other fields would be interesting too) in the real world.
I am wondering if there are any books that discuss such applications, as I wasn't able to find any. To be clear, I'm not looking for detailed books at the research level. I'm looking for books that I can read in my leisure time just out of curiosity to see how concepts from algebra/toplogy/etc are related to the real world.
