Python for Scientists - Hardcover

Stewart, John M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107061393 ISBN 13: 9781107061392

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Python is a free, open source, easy-to-use software tool that offers a significant alternative to proprietary packages such as MATLAB® and Mathematica®. This book covers everything the working scientist needs to know to start using Python effectively. The author explains scientific Python from scratch, showing how easy it is to implement and test non-trivial mathematical algorithms and guiding the reader through the many freely available add-on modules. A range of examples, relevant to many different fields, illustrate the program's capabilities. In particular, readers are shown how to use pre-existing legacy code (usually in Fortran77) within the Python environment, thus avoiding the need to master the original code. Instead of exercises the book contains useful snippets of tested code which the reader can adapt to handle problems in their own field, allowing students and researchers with little computer expertise to get up and running as soon as possible.

About this title

About the Author

John M. Stewart is Emeritus Reader in Gravitational Physics at the University of Cambridge, and a Life Fellow at King's College, Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107061393
• ISBN 13: 9781107061392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 234