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If you liked this... https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm_edition_2/book.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/... "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom > There has been a remarkable revival of interest in classical mechanics in recent years. We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. The behavior of classical systems is surprisingly rich; derivation of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, is just the beginning. Classical systems display a complicated array of phenomena such as nonlinear resonances, chaotic behavior, and transitions to chaos. > Traditional treatments of mechanics concentrate most of their effort on the extremely small class of symbolically tractable dynamical systems. We concentrate on developing general methods for studying the behavior of systems, whether or not they have a symbolic solution. Typical systems exhibit behavior that is qualitatively different from the solvable systems and surprisingly complicated. We focus on the phenomena of motion, and we make extensive use of computer simulation to explore this motion. They are basically making the computer do the work, with emphasis on unambiguous, computable notation. (It could be considered a companion to SICP.)