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

Hans Petter Langtangen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642183654 ISBN 13: 9783642183652

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2011

Synopsis

hardcover, 2011, mathematics

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About the Author

Hans Petter Langtangen is a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo. He has formely 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 a book on Python's potential for scientific computing. He has also developed...

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Review

From the reviews: “This book is an introduction to computer programming using the Python programming language. It focuses on numerical methods as the context for examples, exercises, and assignments. ... 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...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3642183654
• ISBN 13: 9783642183652
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 736