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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker)
Subject: Re: Physics with lisp ?
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 21:13:26 GMT
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In article <ppp336.2.0@news.salford.ac.uk>, ppp336@news.salford.ac.uk
(RCJ   PUTMAN) wrote:

> I've used FORTRAN for the past six years and can get by in C/C++, I was 
> wondering what advantages LISP would have in numerical simulations etc ?
> 
> Could anyone point me in the direction of LISP literature/textbooks with a
> physics or applied mathematics theme (please no AI).

You're in for a real treat.  You might want to contact Professor G.J. Sussman
at MIT.  He's done orbit calculations and other sorts of things in Lisp.
I believe that a fellow at Nat. Bur. of Standards (now NIST) named
Dupre (?) also does orbit calculations in Lisp.

One entre would be through the symbolic mathematics community --
Reduce and Macsyma -- both are written in Lisp.

A neat paper

Roylance, G.  "Expressing Mathematical Subroutines Constructively".
Lisp & Functional Programming Conference, 1988, ACM Press, NY.

Professor Wise at the University of Indiana is interested in numerical
calculations in Scheme, a dialect of Lisp.
