F# for scientists / / Jon Harrop ; foreword by Don Syme

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831072703321
• Autore: Harrop Jon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-118-21081-6; 1-281-76688-7; 9786611766887; 0-470-38595-2; 0-470-38594-4
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.1/14; 005.114; 005.133
• Soggetti: F# (Computer program language); Science - Data processing; Functional programming (Computer science)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Programming guidelines -- A brief history of F# -- Benefits of F# -- Introducing F# -- Imperative programming -- Functional programming -- Program structure. Nesting -- Factoring -- Modules. Objects -- Functional design patterns -- F# development -- Data structures. Algorithmic complexity -- Arrays -- Lists -- Sets -- Hash tables -- Maps -- Choosing a data structure -- Sequences -- Heterogeneous containers -- Trees -- Numerical Analysis. Number -- Algebra --Interpolation -- Quadratic solutions -- Mean and variance -- Other forms of arithmetic -- Input and Output. Printing -- Generic printing -- Reading from and writing to files -- Serialization -- Lexing and parsing -- Simple Examples. Functional -- Numerical -- String related -- List related -- Array related -- Higher order functions -- Visualization. Windows forms -- Managed directX -- Tesselating objects into triangles -- Optimization. Timing -- Profiling -- ; Algorithmic optimizations -- Lower level optimizations -- Libraries. Loading .NET libraries -- Charting and graphing -- Threads -- Random numbers -- Regular expressions -- Vectors and matrices -- Downloading from the Web -- Compression -- Handling XML -- Calling native libraries -- Fourier transform -- Metaprogramming -- Databases. Protein data bank -- Web services -- Relational databases -- Interoperability. Excel interoperability -- MATLAB interoperability -- Mathematica interoperability -- Complete examples. Fast Fourier transform -- Semicircle law -- Finding nth nearest neighbors -- Logistic map -- Real time particle dynamics -- Appendix A: Troubleshooting.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""This work strikes a balance between the pure functional aspects of F# and the object-oriented and imperative features that make it so useful in practice, enable .NET integration, and make large-scale data processing possible.""-Thore Graepel, PhD, Researcher, Microsoft Research Ltd. Over the next five years, F# is expected to become one of the world's most popular functional programming languages for scientists of all disciplines working on the Windows platform. F# is free and, unlike MATLAB® and other software with numerical/scientific origins, is a full-fledged programming language.<