Scientific Computation: Python Hacking for Math Junkies Shapiro Bruce E.Paperback

There is a newer edition (ISBN 978-1725894662) of this book that actually covers Python 3.6.This is a book about hacking, but not just any kind of hacking. If you like math and want to use computers to do math or solve mathematical problems, then this book is the for you.This is version 3, which includes over 80 additional pages, with extensive additions on Python classes, iPython with jupyter notebooks, magic functions, random numbers, and probability and statistics. It is about mathematical hacking, or scientific computing.

Version 3.0.3 (2017) is revised and corrected.Part I gives an introduction to programming, the Python shell, and using iPython notebooks.Part II gives a thorough tour of the Python language. The emphasis throughout the text is on programming in the iPython notebook. Topics include data types, simple statements, assignments,