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I've yet to finish my way through. But it is amazingly precise and thorough. There are a few mistakes that the reader catches easily if they've been paying attention.

The authors are really onto something with programming as a means to learn other subjects. I know there is a very recent book on differential geometry topics from them also!

Would you happen to have proof of property d of exercise 1.33 lying around? (The one on the Euler-Lagrange operator of a composition of Lagrangian-like functions)

This is great material! I wonder if the recordings are available somewhere on-line to the public.

> covers the science as it develops, if a little too briefly.

Most biographies of scientists focus on their character and personal life rather their work.

There are very few technical biographies, even of highly technical people. Readers won't understand the work of the scientist any better after reading through one of them.

Quantum Man[0] by Lawrence Krauss specifically aims to be a solution to this regarding Richard Feynman. And even in this case the exposition needs to be so terse that only the highly technical reader will fully understand most aspects of Feynman's work in the correct context.

Do you know of any biography of Dirac that edges on "if a little too technical"? I would love to read that.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Man-Richard-Feynmans-Discoveri...

There is a recent book by Sussman and Wisdom that goes over Differential Geometry with a focus on Physics applications.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/calculus-inde... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262019345/

Edit: included Amazon link.