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u/Sinpathy · 3 pointsr/math

Actually there are some books which aren't reprints which are published by Dover. See: Curvature in Mathematics and Physics - Sternberg

u/Cronecker · 2 pointsr/physicsbooks

The links between topology, geometry and classical mechanics are fairly well documented in the other comments. Geometry and topology are fairly important in modern physics, at least what I've seen of it. General Relativity is the main example of where geometric ideas began to enter into physics. A good resource for this is Sean Carroll's GR notes and corresponding book. There are more advanced GR texts as well, like Wald's book.

There are also some books which deal directly with the links between physics and geometry, such as Frankels book, Szekeres, Agricola and Friedrich and Sternberg. Of these I own Szekeres book which is very good, and Frankels looks very good as well. The other two I am not sure about.

Geometric ideas do raise their head in more areas, as an example it is possible to formulate electromagnetism in terms of tensors or the hodge dual (see here). Additionally, and this is a bit beyond my knowledge, a friend of mine is working on topics in quantum field theory involving knot theory. I'm not exactly sure how this works but the links are certainly there.

Sorry if this all has more of a differential geometry flavour to it rather than a topological one, the diff geo side is what I know better. Hope that all helps. :)