THE VIDEO SHELF · symbolic classical mechanics
Physics in Clojure - Colin Smith
Colin Smith introduces Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics and his Clojure port, sicmutils. He shows how higher-order functions and a symbolic algebra system can represent Lagrangian mechanics.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the best introduction to SICM and sicmutils and a showcase of what such symbolic systems can do.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- ClojureTV
- Topic
- symbolic classical mechanics
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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Thanks, this is a nice port! I worked through SICM using sicmutils as a backup. The MIT Scheme version sometimes "locked up" on my solutions to exercises and sicmutils did not (the Foucault pendulum problem comes to mind). This video is an introduction to SICM …
ja-85 on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)Computer Algebra is criminally underused - it has the potential to make math-heavy critical-path code a lot more clear, testable, observable and bug-free by design. I feel I need to mention "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" by Wisdom and Sussman, and the accompanying "scmutils" …
hcarvalhoalves on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Symbolics.jl: A Modern Computer Algebra System for a Modern Language
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