Programming for Computations - Python
A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6
Authors: Linge, Svein, Langtangen, Hans Petter
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- 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
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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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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.”
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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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The First Few Steps
Pages 1-38
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A Few More Steps
Pages 39-58
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Loops and Branching
Pages 59-77
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Functions and the Writing of Code
Pages 79-102
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Some More Python Essentials
Pages 103-130
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Programming for Computations - Python
- Book Subtitle
- A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6
- Authors
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- Svein Linge
- Hans Petter Langtangen
- Series Title
- Texts in Computational Science and Engineering
- Series Volume
- 15
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Authors
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-16877-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-16877-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-16876-6
- Series ISSN
- 1611-0994
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 332
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
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