A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python 5th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-3662498866

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A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python 5th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-3662498866

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• Publisher: ‎ Springer; 5th ed. 2016 edition (August 1, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• 953 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 3662498863
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-3662498866

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 teaches “Matlab-style” and procedural programming as well as object-oriented programming. High school mathematics is a required background and it is advantageous to study classical and numerical one-variable calculus in parallel with reading this book. Besides learning how to program computers, the reader will also learn how to solve mathematical problems, arising in various branches of science and engineering, with the aid of numerical methods and programming. By blending programming, mathematics and scientific applications, the book lays a solid foundation for practicing computational science.

From the reviews: Langtangen … does an excellent job of introducing programming as a set of skills in problem solving. He guides the reader into thinking properly about producing program logic and data structures for modeling real-world problems using objects and functions and embracing the object-oriented paradigm. … Summing Up: Highly recommended.

Hans Petter Langtangen is a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo. He has formerly been a professor of mechanics and is now the director of a Norwegian Center of Excellence: “Center for Biomedical Computing”, at Simula Research Laboratory. Langtangen has published over 100 scientific publications and written several books, including papers and the bestseller TCSE 6 “A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python”, now in its 5th edition. He has also developed open source and commercial software systems for computational sciences.

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