A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python

• Main Author: Langtangen, Hans Petter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 4th ed. 2014.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 6
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Software engineering.; Computer programming.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Mathematics of Computing.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Computing with Formulas
• Loops and Lists
• Functions and Branching
• User Input and Error Handling
• Array Computing and Curve Plotting
• Dictionaries and Strings
• Introduction to Classes
• Random Numbers and Simple Games
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Sequences and Difference Equations
• Introduction to Discrete Calculus
• Introduction to Differential Equations
• A Complete Differential Equation Project
• Programming of Differential Equations
• Debugging
• Migrating Python to Compiled Code
• Technical Topics
• Bibliography
• Index.