Download or read book Foundations of Mechanics written by Ralph Abraham and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference on symplectic geometry, analytical mechanics and symplectic methods in mathematical physics. It offers a treatment of geometric mechanics. It is also suitable as a textbook for the foundations of differentiable and Hamiltonian dynamics.