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| author | bnewbold <bnewbold@eta.mit.edu> | 2009-03-01 02:19:05 -0500 |
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reading notes
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diff --git a/journal/26feb2009.html b/journal/26feb2009.html index 052534d..2aee674 100644 --- a/journal/26feb2009.html +++ b/journal/26feb2009.html @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ of the first *number* terms of the taylor expansion of *function* by *variable* around *point*. <br /><br /> -<a href="19feb2009.html"><i>(previous entry)</i></a> +<a href="19feb2009.html"><i>(previous entry)</i></a> - +<a href="28feb2009.html"><i>(next entry)</i></a> <!-- ================================================================ --> <!-- ================================================================ --> diff --git a/journal/28feb2009.html b/journal/28feb2009.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68b6b71 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/28feb2009.html @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" +"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head><title>bnewbold thesis</title></head> +<body style="margin: 25px; font-family: helvetica;"> +<h1 style="border-bottom: 2px solid;"> +Journal: Feb 28, 2009</h1> +<i>Bryan Newbold, <a href="mailto:bnewbold@mit.edu">bnewbold@mit.edu</a></i><br /> +<i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/"> +http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/</a></i> +<br /><p /> +<!-- ================================================================ --> +<!-- ================================================================ --> + +I skimmed through a bunch of papers that I had looked up a couple months ago, +mostly to see if any of them would be worth actually reading. Here are my +notes, there may be better links and more papers on the +<a href="../references.html">references</a> page. + +<h4>"GR and the application of algebraic manipulative systems"</h4> +barton and fitch; 6pages, 1971 +<br /> <br /> +mentions tetrad formulation, some algorithms, develops motivation + +<h4>"using camal for algebraic computations in general relativity"</h4> +fitch and cohen, 8pages, 1979 +<br /> <br /> +blah, doesn't look interesting, does have a table comparing various sytems + +<h4>"the use of algebraic computing in general relativity"</h4> +cohen, leringe, and sundblad, 18pages, 1975 +<br /> <br /> + +better than the above but mostly a review paper of contemporary systems + +<h4>"Algebraic computing in general relativity"</h4> +d'Inverno, 27 pages, 1974 +<br /> <br /> + +mostly "advice" on how implementations could/should be; lots of examples of +things to implement, could be good as unit tests + +<h4>"Computer programs for calculating general-relativistic curvature tensors"</h4> +fletcher, clemens, matzner, thorne, zimmerman; 2pages, 1967 +<br /> <br /> + +just a historical note? pretty trivial? + +<h4>"Scientific computation and functional programming"</h4> +karczmarczuk, 10pages, 1999 +<br /> <br /> +all quantum but the writing style is what i expect my cs/implementation section +will look like. haskell. maybe a good bibliography to go though? + + +<br /><br /> +<a href="26feb2009.html"><i>(previous entry)</i></a> + +<!-- ================================================================ --> +<!-- ================================================================ --> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/references.html b/references.html index afd50a1..b4f8dbe 100644 --- a/references.html +++ b/references.html @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ so is the <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/">SICP book</a>. There is an unofficial <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/sicm">SICM mailing list</a>.<br /> <br /> <b>Todo Quick Reading</b> +<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman-Penrose_formalism"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman-Penrose_formalism</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan_connection_applications"> @@ -19,16 +20,18 @@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan_connection_applications</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics_as_Hamiltonian_flows"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics_as_Hamiltonian_flows</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem"> -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem</a> (field theory version<br /> +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem</a> (field theory version)<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace-Runge-Lenz_vector"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace-Runge-Lenz_vector</a> (SICM?)<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_relativity"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_relativity</a> ("for culture")<br /> - +<br /> <b>Possible/Misc</b> +<br /> <u>The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment</u>, will clifford <br /> +<br /> <b>Computational GR</b> <br />Try this <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=xWi&q=+site:www.springerlink.com+general+relativity+lisp">google search</a>? <ul> |