jbaltz's Journal: Recently read

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, by Sussman and Wisdom. Available from buy.com. It's not a bad book; it tries to do some neat things integrating some "rigorous" CS-Mathy things with the fast-and-loose of Lagrangian mechanics, and succeeds somewhat, but they come >>this<< close to actually defining co/contravariant vectors and tangent bundles and never really do...