Geometric Mechanics

some lectures
  • Notes on Noether's theorem and momentum maps

    Rigid body (1): kinematics

    Notes on symplectic and Poisson geometry
    suggested references:
    Arnol'd: Mathematical Methods in Classical Mechanics
    Abraham-Marsden: Foundations of Mechanics
    Landau and Lifshitz: Classical Mechanics further afield, good for a global perspective:
    George Mackey: The mathematical Foundations of quantum mechanics
    Dirac: Quantum Mechanics
    for the Legendre Transformation: L. C. Young : Optimal Control Theory