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8.981 :: Selected Topics in Astrophysics

Older versions of Numerical Recipes are now available for free online: Click here for PDFs of chapters of the older editions. It's a good idea to get a copy of the book at some point, but for our purposes the older stuff is "good enough" to get by.

Note that Handbook of Mathematical Functions by Abramowitz and Stegun is also hosted on the above link.

Two papers that I found useful while learning about symplectic integrators: Symplectic Integrators for Hamiltonian Systems: Basic Theory, and Recent Progress in the Theory and Application of Symplectic Integrators, both by Haruo Yoshida.