The start of a topiary adventure

Published on 2024-12-01

I finally found the time to set up my own hypertext knowledge base using the excellent Forester tool developed by Jon Sterling and contributors.

The project, Perennial Curiosity, is an experiment with building a forest of evergreen notes on mathematics (and computer science in the future). A selection of exemplary forests in this regard that serve as inspiration for this project are: Utensil's forest, CAIMEO's Rabbit Hole and Trebor's forest. The grunt work has been done and the website is now deployed at https://perennialcuriosity.cc/index.xml (source) for your viewing pleasure. The initial plan is to grow the forest to include all the mathematics topics I have learned thus far in my undergraduate studies. The forest is very barren at the moment however I will be progressively adding more content beginning with notes on introductory group theory and general topology. My motivation for the project is twofold: one is to reinforce my own understanding of the written concepts/topics, while the other is to document my personal journey of learning as to not throw away the ladder one climbs up. As a byproduct, it will also have produced a reference on the subjects I have jotted down notes upon. I hope these notes will be of some utility to other learners and enthusiasts as well.