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Record Nr.

UNISA996465467003316

Autore

Smith Einar

Titolo

Introduction to the tools of scientific computing / / Einar Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-60808-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 344 p. 40 illus., 33 illus. in color.)

Collana

Texts in Computational Science and Engineering ; ; Volume 25

Disciplina

004.0151

Soggetti

Computer science - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I, Background -- Part II, Core Languages -- Part III, Commercial Computing Environments -- Part IV, Distributed Computing -- Part V, Specialized Programming Environments -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The book provides an introduction to common programming tools and methods in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. Unlike widely used standard approaches, it does not focus on any particular language but aims to explain the key underlying concepts. In general, new concepts are first introduced in the particularly user-friendly Python language and then transferred and expanded in various scientific programming environments from C / C ++, Julia and MATLAB to Maple. This includes different approaches to distributed computing. The fact that different languages are studied and compared also makes the book useful for mathematicians and practitioners trying to decide which programming language to use for which purposes.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134009203321

Autore

Adrian Wüthrich (ed.)

Titolo

New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics : Proceedings of an International Symposium, Bern, June 23-24, 2011

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edition Open Access, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Proceedings 3: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Quantum theory has been a subject of interpretational debates ever since its inception. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell's inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement for technological innovation only exacerbate a long-standing philosophical debate. Despite no-signaling theorems and theories of decoherence, deep-rooted conflicts between special relativistic principles and observed quantum correlations as well as between definite measurement outcomes and quantum theoretical superpositions persist. This collection of papers, first presented at an international symposium at the University of Bern in 2011, highlights some recent approaches to the old problems of a philosophy of quantum mechanics. The authors address the issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from variations of causal theory and system theoretic interpretations of the observer to an empirical test of whether entanglement itself can be entangled. The essays demonstrate that the discussion about the foundations of quantum mechanics is as lively and interesting as ever.