Classical mechanics text recommendation

[adriang]

I'm looking for a classical mechanics book that is heavily mathematical based, I've looked around a little however I'm lazy and don't want to buy a dud book. any recommendations would be great, thanks. (also i know there's 100000000000threads on text recom's however can't seem to find much ppl asking for heavily mathematical based ones)

 

[rayphwu]

Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics - V. I. Arnold

 

[D H]

Classical Mechanics - Goldstein (third edition is by Goldstein, Poole and Safko). This is pretty much the standard text for the introductory course in classical mechanics at the graduate level.

 

[George Jones]

I'm looking for a classical mechanics book that is heavily mathematical based

What do you mean by "heavily mathematical based"?

Do you mean texts that use a differential geometry-based approach?