Functional differential geometry by gerald jay sussman, jack wisdom. It is surprisingly easy to get the right answer with unclear and informal symbol manipulation. Functional differential geometry by sussman, wisdom, farr, 9780262315616. Working my way through sussman and wisdoms functional differential geometry and implementing it in python. In the same spirit of structure and interpretation of classical mechanics in order to really understand differenitial geometry, you write programs to do the computations. Implements the datastructures in the tuples section of appendix b. Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics by sussman, gerald jay, wisdom, jack published by the mit press 2001. Programming forces us to be precise and unambiguous. Turtle geometry 2, a beautiful book about discrete di.
Our etextbook is browserbased and it is our goal to support the widest selection of devices available, from desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Publication date 20 usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. Gerald jay sussman and jack wisdom with will farr themitpress cambridge,massachusetts. To address this problem we use computer programs to communicate a precise understanding of the computations in differential geometry. The approach taken by the authors and used in their classes at mit for many years differs from the conventional one in several ways, including an emphasis on the development of the covariant derivative and an avoidance of the use of traditional index notation for tensors in favor of a semantically. Functional differential geometry gerald jay sussman. I actually really wish python tuples worked this way. Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics by sussman, gerald jay, wisdom, jack published by the mit press 2001 on.
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