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There's also this one, "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" (by the same authors): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...

And here are some source files and setup notes for the underlying SICM scheme library pertinent to macOS: https://github.com/hnarayanan/sicm

I had ordered one of those books (don't really remember which of them), and it is to this day the only book I sent back to amazon for a refund.

ok?

This comment doesn't really tell us much. Was the book missing its cover? Did you not realize what the book was about? Did you dislike the presentation style?

okay, I dug up my amazon review again. It was "Functional Differential Geometry" and my main complaint was, that they claim to replace a fuzzy mathematical notation with a Scheme DSL which would make things more clear. In the end, it all felt like they replaced mathematical notation with one that THEY were just more familiar.

I am a scheme/lisp/clojure fan by heart, so it definitely wasn't the parens.

I actually did the same with SICM, because it arrived with some of the pages stuck together. In the chapter on rigid body dynamics, as it happens.

(This really did occur, but it was just glue.)

A great book that walks the reader through simulations to learn Physics is, "From Newton to Mandelbrot". [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Newton-Mandelbrot-Theoretical-Physics...

And the previous HN discussion on this exact topic had some good notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003898

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