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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817020203321

Autore

Rojas Sergio J.G

Titolo

Learning SciPy for numerical and scientific computing : quick solutions to complex numerical problems in physics, applied mathematics, and science with SciPy / / Sergio J. Rojas G., Erik A. Christensen, Francisco J. Blanco-Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Birmingham, England ; ; Mumbai, [India] : , : Packt Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78398-771-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Community Experience Distilled

Disciplina

519.4

Soggetti

Numerical analysis - Data processing

Python (Computer program language)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to SciPy; What is SciPy?; Installing SciPy; Installing SciPy on Mac OS X; Installing SciPy on Unix/Linux; Installing SciPy on Windows; Testing SciPy installation; SciPy organization; How to find documentation; Scientific visualization; How to open IPython Notebooks; Summary; Chapter 2: Working with the NumPy Array As a First Step to SciPy; Object essentials; Using datatype; Indexing and slicing arrays; The array object; Array conversions

Shape selection/manipulationsObject calculations; Array routines; Routines to create arrays; Routines for the combination of two or more arrays; Routines for array manipulation; Routines to extract information from arrays; Summary; Chapter 3: SciPy for Linear Algebra; Vector creation; Vector operations; Addition/subtraction; Scalar/Dot product; Cross / Vector product - on three-dimensional space vectors; Creating a matrix; Matrix methods; Operations between matrices; Functions on matrices; Eigenvalue problems and matrix decompositions; Image compression via the singular value decomposition

SolversSummary; Chapter 4: SciPy for Numerical Analysis; Evaluation of special functions; Convenience and test functions; Univariate



polynomials; The gamma function; The Riemann zeta function; Airy and Bairy functions; The Bessel and Struve functions; Other special functions; Interpolation; Regression; Optimization; Minimization; Roots; Integration; Exponential/logarithm integrals; Trigonometric and hyperbolic trigonometric integrals; Elliptic integrals; Gamma and beta integrals ; Numerical integration; Ordinary differential equations; Lorenz attractors; Summary

Chapter 5: SciPy for Signal ProcessingDiscrete Fourier Transforms; Signal construction; Filters; LTI system theory; Filter design; Window functions; Image interpolation; Morphology; Summary; Chapter 6: SciPy for Data Mining; Descriptive statistics; Distributions; Interval estimation, correlation measures, and statistical tests; Distribution fitting; Distances; Clustering; Vector quantization and k-means; Hierarchical clustering; Clustering mammals by their dentition; Summary; Chapter 7: SciPy for Computational Geometry; Structural model of oxides

A finite element solver for Laplace's equationSummary; Chapter 8: Interaction with Other Languages; Interaction with Fortran; Interaction with C/C++; Interaction with MATLAB/Octave; Summary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book targets programmers and scientists who have basic Python knowledge and who are keen to perform scientific and numerical computations with SciPy.