Analytical Mechanics

Sergio Cecotti graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Pisa in 1979 and has worked at Harvard University, UCLA, the CERN in Geneva, and the ICTP in Trieste. He has taught physics at the University of Pisa, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA), and now at BIMSA in Beijing. He is the author of the book "Introduction to String Theory" published by Springer (2023).

• Towards Lagrangian Mechanics.- Smooth Manifolds.- Lagrangian Mechanics on Manifolds.- Variational Methods: the Action Principle.- Important Special Systems.- Hamilton Equations.- Symplectic Geometry.-  Canonical Transformations.- The Hamilton-Jacobi Theory.-  Integrable Systems and All That.- Introduction to Perturbative Methods.