Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry The Peyresq Lectures

Geometric mechanics lies on the border of pure and applied mathematics and incorporates such disciplines as differential geometry, Hamiltonian mechanics and integrable systems. The editors organised a summer school on Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry from which the main courses have been written up and published here. The book was written with a significant input from the participants at the conference. This means that the lecture notes are thoroughly geared towards the needs of a graduate student and take great care to explain concepts at the correct level.Montaldi, James is the author of 'Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry The Peyresq Lectures' with ISBN 9780521539579 and ISBN 0521539579.