I will explain how an arbitrary finite set of numbers containing zero can be understood with topology, namely, as the set of degrees of maps between two closed manifolds.
Links:
[1] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/158