[gumby]

One of the three SCIP authors you mean.

Not so incredible; Gerry has always loved physics and in the 80s built a digital orrery in scheme shortly after SCIP was written. I believe this book had its earliest inklings in that work.

[xdavidliu]

Around March 2019, I walked up to Gerry at the end of a class he taught (I was sitting in) and he mentioned that he was actually a physics major at MIT when he was an undergrad (in addition to math) but was one course short. The course he was missing? Junior lab (now 8.13 / 8.14)