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    STUDIA MATHEMATICA - Issue no. 4 / 2012  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: DARRYL D HOLM, GEOMETRIC MECHANICS, 2ND EDITION, IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, LONDON, 2011. PART I: DYNAMICS AND SYMMETRY, XXIV + 441 PP, ISBN: 13 978-1-84816-774-2. PART II: ROTATING, TRANSLATING AND ROLLING, XX + 390 PP, ISBN: 13 978-1-84816-777-3.

Authors:  FERENC SZENKOVITS. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The two volumes of Darryl Holm’s Geometric Mechanics offer an attractive introduction to the tools and language of modern geometric mechanics. These volumes are designed for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics, physics and engineering. The minimal prerequisite for reading Geometric Mechanics is a working knowledge of linear algebra, multivaluable calculus and some familiarity with Hamilton’s principle, Euler-Lagrange variational principles and canonical Poisson brackets in classical mechanics, at the beginning undergraduate level.  
         
     
         
         
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