I'd really like to see a "spiritual successor" to Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics--something that can take off and achieve a life of its own.
SICM is open-source, and many people have implemented their own versions of parts of it, but I would love to see a vibrant and active community develop around such a beautiful computer algebra / computer-physics system.
SICM goes far beyond simple Newtonian mechanics, implementing calculus, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, and differential geometry, and probably a whole lot more that you just have to spelunk into the source code to discover.
I'd really like to see a "spiritual successor" to Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics--something that can take off and achieve a life of its own.
SICM is open-source, and many people have implemented their own versions of parts of it, but I would love to see a vibrant and active community develop around such a beautiful computer algebra / computer-physics system.
SICM goes far beyond simple Newtonian mechanics, implementing calculus, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, and differential geometry, and probably a whole lot more that you just have to spelunk into the source code to discover.
(Here's a book about the differential geometry implementation in scmutils: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262019347/functional-differenti... as seen in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7884551 )