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Symbolic Differentiation and Quotation in Lisp

Hal Abelson Gerald Jay Sussman

44:02·2019·undergraduate

Explore the foundational concepts of symbolic differentiation and the role of quotation in Lisp, as presented in MIT's seminal 6.001 course on the structure and interpretation of computer programs.

Symbolic Differentiation; Quotation

Despite the copyright notice on the screen, this course is now offered under a Creative Commons license: BY-NC-SA. Details at

Systems & CS Programming Languages Lisp, Macros & Symbolic Abstraction Metaprogramming 6.001 Interpretation

Referenced inMIT OpenCourseWare · MIT 6.001 (July 1986 / Spring 2005)

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MIT 6.001: Logic Programming, Part 1

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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

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MIT Professor and co-author of SICP and Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, co-inventor of the Scheme programming language.

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