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by db48x 1325 days ago
Find yourself a copy of The Structural Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. The primary author of this textbook on mechanics was the inventor of Scheme. It uses two notations throughout. The first will be very familiar to mathematicians, but with some changes to disambiguate things like derivatives, while the other notation is Scheme.

The Mechanics package for MIT-Scheme adds a whole computer algebra system so that it can compute the derivatives of ordinary Scheme functions, symbolically evaluate them, etc.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/bo...