most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-19T12:00:58Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/104750 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/104750/about-a-letter-by-richard-palais-of-1965 Giuseppe 2012-08-15T08:53:24Z 2012-08-16T10:14:23Z

<p>In Cushman and Bates, Global Aspects of Classical Integrable Systems, 1997, I have read </p> <blockquote> <p>In a widely circulated but unpublished letter in 1965, Palais explained the symplectic formulation of Hamiltonian mechanics.</p> </blockquote> <p>I would like to know if, in the meanwhile, this letter was made available.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/104750/about-a-letter-by-richard-palais-of-1965/104781#104781 Dick Palais 2012-08-15T18:07:04Z 2012-08-15T18:07:04Z

<p>I haven't thought about that letter for a very long time, but as far as I can recall I didn't ever make it publicly available, and I don't think any of the friends to whom I sent it did either. However, I am a bit of a pack-rat, so after Ryan Budney alerted me that this question had appeared on MO I did some searching in my piles of old papers, and I found and scanned what I am pretty sure was the mathematical content of the letter, and here is a link to the scan. </p> <p><a href="http://vmm.math.uci.edu/PalaisLetterOnSymplectic.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://vmm.math.uci.edu/PalaisLetterOnSymplectic.pdf</a></p> <p>(I'm not sure if I just sent out copies of this with a cover letter or rather wrote a letter in which I copied the contents of the above.)</p> <p>Note, that the first page of the above is a scan of page 159 of "Foundations of Mechanics" by Ralph Abraham and Jerry Marsden. It says that the letter was from around 1962, which is what I recall. Ralph was one of the recipients. Dick Palais</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/104750/about-a-letter-by-richard-palais-of-1965/104782#104782 Dylan Wilson 2012-08-15T18:48:01Z 2012-08-16T10:14:23Z

<blockquote> <p>I would like to know if, in the meanwhile, this letter was made available</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes! (See <a href="http://mathoverflow.net/questions/104750/about-a-letter-by-richard-palais-of-1965/104781#104781" rel="nofollow">here</a>).</p>