A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python

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A Primer on ScientificProgramming with PythonHans Petter Langtangen1,21Center for Biomedical Computing, Simula Research Laboratory2Department of Informatics, University of OsloAug 21, 2014PrefaceThe aim of this book is to teach computer Programming using examplesfrom mathematics and the natural sciences. We have chosen to use thePython Programming language because it combines remarkable expressivepower with very clean, simple, and compact syntax. Python is easy tolearn and very well suited for an introduction to computer is also quite similar to MATLAB and a good language for doingmathematical computing.

subjects of Chapter 4. Chapter 5 introduces arrays and array computing (including vectorization) and how this is used for plotting y = f(x) curves and making animation of curves. Many of the examples in the first five chapters are strongly related. Typically, formulas from the first chapter are used to produce tables of numbers in the second ...

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