Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu <o...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, s...@l.airelinux.org
* Package name : scmutils Version : 20220518 Upstream Contact: Gerald Jay Sussman <g...@mit.edu> * URL : https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946 * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Scheme Description : scheme mathematical library An integrated library of procedures, embedded in the programming language Scheme, and intended to support teaching and research in mathematical physics and electrical engineering. Scmutils and Scheme are particularly effective in work where the almost-functional nature of Scheme is advantageous, such as classical mechanics, where many of the procedures are most easily formulated as quite abstract manipulations of functions. . This code was developed for educational and research use at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the library accompanying the Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom to do variational calculus and much more. A group of students and I at Tsinghua University are holding seminars to learn and extend it. Our members encountered errors when trying to install scmutils and set up its integration with emacs on Debian. We believe SICM will become the bible for classical mechanics as SICP did for programming. We want to lower the barrier of SICM to those who are not (yet) tech-savvy, especially students majoring physics and mathematics. Such consideration justifies our intention to bring this package to Debian. I shall maintain this package as long as I hold this seminar, which is expected to be at the time scale of a decade.