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A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering)

By Hans Petter Langtangen

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2009
ISBN
9783642024740, 3642024742
LCC
QA76.73.P98 L34 2009
Open Library ID
OL25007975M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (6955319 bytes)
Series
Texts in Computational Science and Engineering
Edition
1
Pages
726\726
Topic
Mathematics\\Computational Mathematics
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

I've always done scientific computing using Fortran but got curious and did some projects with Python. I learned Python using online references. Now as I read through this Primer I realize how many essential details I missed by gathering information randomly off the internet. This book presents material clearly and in a comprehensive and logical manner.

Note that the emphasis is on teaching Python rather than numerical methods. If your main focus is to learn techniques for scientific computing then you should look for a different book.

Python is a good language for learning to use object-oriented programming (OOP) and this book will make that easy. On the other hand, the author didn't quite convince me that this approach is useful for scientific programming (but OOP is clearly quite useful elsewhere).

Overall I found the book very helpful - highly recommended.

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