Gerald Jay Sussman

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a textbook aiming to teach the principles of computer programming, such as abstraction in programming, metalinguistic abstraction, recursion, interpreters, and modular programming. It is widely considered a classic text in computer science, and is colloquially known …

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics is a classical mechanics textbook written by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom with Meinhard E. Mayer. It was published by MIT Press in 2001. The book is used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach a class in advanced classical mechanics, starting with …