Overview
- Easy-to-read text offering a gentle introduction to the necessary mathematics and computer science concepts
- Focuses on explaining all details of how to construct programs to solve mathematical problems
- Further emphasizes verification procedures and how to embed them in automatic test frameworks
Part of the book series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering (TCSE, volume 15)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. This second edition of the well-received book has been extensively revised: All code is now written in Python version 3.6 (no longer version 2.7). In addition, the two first chapters of the previous edition have been extended and split up into five new chapters, thus expanding the introduction to programming from 50 to 150 pages. Throughout the book, the explanations provided are now more detailed, previous examples have been modified, and new sections, examples and exercises have been added. Also, a number of small errors have been corrected.
The book was inspired by the Springer book TCSE 6: A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (by Langtangen), but the style employed is more accessible and concise, in keeping with the needs of engineering students.
The book outlines the shortest possible path from no previous experience with programming to a set of skills that allows students to write simple programs for solving common mathematical problems with numerical methods in the context of engineering and science courses. The emphasis is on generic algorithms, clean program design, the use of functions, and automatic tests for verification.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Svein Linge is a professor of modelling and simulation at the University College of Southeast Norway and holds a Dr. Scient. degree in biomechanics from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He works part-time at a Norwegian Center of Excellence: "Center for Biomedical Computing", at Simula Research Laboratory, to which he has been linked for the last 13 years. His main research interests includes cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, cardiac electro-mechanics and sport biomechanics. Over the last decade, Linge has been particularly engaged in reforming the engineering education in mathematics and physics to take advantage of computer programming and simulation.
Hans Petter Langtangen (1962 - 2016) was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo. He was formerly a professor of mechanics and was the Director of "Center for Biomedical Computing", a Norwegian Center of Excellence at the Simula Research Laboratory in Oslo. Langtangen has more than 100 scientific publications, including journal papers and many books, e.g., the bestseller TCSE 6 "A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python" (editions 1 - 5). He has also developed open source and commercial software systems for computational sciences.”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Programming for Computations - Python
Book Subtitle: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6
Authors: Svein Linge, Hans Petter Langtangen
Series Title: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16877-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Authors 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16876-6Published: 11 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16877-3Published: 30 October 2019
Series ISSN: 1611-0994
Series E-ISSN: 2197-179X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 332
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Science and Engineering, Numeric Computing, Mathematical Software, Numerical Analysis