
<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="mike@7f.com" data-contactname="Michael Roberts" class="clickable"><span title="mike@7f.com">Michael Roberts</span><span class="detail"> <mike@7f.com></span></span> , 15/10/2014 2:43 AM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">While on the subject of mathematical works, I found this one to be

<br>very interesting:

<br>

<br><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry" target="_blank" title="http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry">http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry</a>

</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Cool. Jack Wisdom's stability analysis of Pluto was what convinced me that maybe there is something to symplectic methods and other "hightech" calculations rather than just brute forcing it with a high order Runge-Kutta method. The book is pretty neat in that it mixes scheme with differential geometry; it feels somewhat exotic and yet familiar.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University<br></div></body></html>