LEADER 04863nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910955689903321 005 20240516183317.0 010 $a9786613349385 010 $a9781283349383 010 $a1283349388 010 $a9781849514477 010 $a184951447X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093866 035 $a(EBL)945562 035 $a(OCoLC)780492033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318597 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507508 035 $a(PQKB)10200353 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL945562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10471850 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL334938 035 $a(PPN)228000629 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88851727 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC945562 035 $a(FRCYB88851727)88851727 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093866 100 $a20110607d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSage beginner's guide $eunlock the full potential of Sage for simplifying and automating mathematical computing /$fCraig Finch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOlton, Birmingham $cPackt Pub.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (596 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781849514460 311 08$a1849514461 327 $aSage; Sage; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Time for action - heading; What just happened?; Pop quiz - heading; Have a go hero - heading; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. What Can You Do with Sage?; Getting started; Using Sage as a powerful calculator; Symbolic mathematics; Have a go hero - 327 $aLinear algebraSolving an ordinary differential equation; More advanced graphics; Visualising a three-dimensional surface; Typesetting mathematical expressions; A practical example: analysing experimental data; Time for action - fitting the standard curve; What just happened?; Time for action - plotting experimental data; What just happened?; Time for action - fitting a growth model; What just happened?; Summary; 2. Installing Sage; Before you begin; Installing a binary version of Sage on Windows; Downloading VMware Player; Installing VMWare Player; Downloading and extracting Sage 327 $aLaunching the virtual machineStart Sage; Installing a binary version of Sage on OS X; Downloading Sage; Installing Sage; Starting Sage; Installing a binary version of Sage on GNU/Linux; Downloading and decompressing Sage; Running Sage from your user account; Installing for multiple users; Building Sage from source; Prerequisites; Downloading and decompressing source tarball; Building Sage; Installation; Summary; 3. Getting Started with Sage; How to get help with Sage; Starting Sage from the command line; Using the interactive shell; Time for action - doing calculations on the command line 327 $aWhat just happened?Getting help; Command history; Tab completion; Interactively tracing execution; Using the notebook interface; Starting the notebook interface; Time for action - doing calculations with the notebook interface; What just happened?; Getting help in the notebook interface; Working with cells; Working with code; Closing the notebook interface; Have a go hero - using the notebook interface; Displaying results of calculations; Operators and variables; Arithmetic operators; Pop quiz - working with operators; Numerical types; Integers and rational numbers; Real numbers 327 $aComplex numbersSymbolic expressions; Defining variables on rings; Combining types in expressions; Pop quiz - understanding types; Strings; Time for action - using strings; What just happened?; Callable symbolic expressions; Time for action - defining callable symbolic expressions; What just happened?; Automatically typesetting expressions; Functions; Time for action - calling functions; What just happened?; Have a go hero - make some more plots; Built-in functions; Numerical approximations; The reset and restore functions; Defining your own functions 327 $aTime for action - defining and using your own functions 330 $aUnlock the full potential of Sage for simplifying and automating mathematical computing 606 $aMathematics$xComputer programs 615 0$aMathematics$xComputer programs. 676 $a005.5 676 $a300/.7/27 700 $aFinch$b Craig$01795876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955689903321 996 $aSage beginner's guide$94337358 997 $aUNINA