Doing Math with Python

Use Programming to Explore Algebra, Statistics, Calculus, and More!

Amit Saha (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2015
No Starch Press (Verlag)
978-1-59327-640-9 (ISBN)

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Doing Math with Python teaches you how to use Python as a tool to delve into math concepts.

Let Python handle the grunt work while you focus on the math.

Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school-level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus.

You'll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you've gotten the hang of things. Along the way, you'll discover new ways to explore math and gain valuable programming skills that you'll use throughout your study of math and computer science.

Learn how to:

Describe your data with statistics, and visualize it with line graphs, bar charts, and scatter plots
Explore set theory and probability with programs for coin flips, dicing, and other games of chance
Solve algebra problems using Python’s symbolic math functions
Draw geometric shapes and explore fractals like the Barnsley fern, the Sierpinski triangle, and the Mandelbrot set
Write programs to find derivatives and integrate functions

Creative coding challenges and applied examples help you see how you can put your new math and coding skills into practice.

You'll write an inequality solver, plot gravity's effect on how far a bullet will travel, shuffle a deck of cards, estimate the area of a circle by throwing 100,000 »darts« at a board, explore the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, and more.

Whether you're interested in math but have yet to dip into programming or you're a teacher looking to bring programming into the classroom, you'll find that Python makes programming easy and practical.

Amit Saha is a software engineer at Red Hat in Brisbane, Australia. He created and maintains Fedora Scientific, an open-source software distribution for scientific and educational users. He is the author of Write Your First Program (Prentice Hall Learning).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Working with Numbers
Chapter 2: Visualizing Data with Graphs
Chapter 3: Describing Data with Statistics
Chapter 4: Algebra and Symbolic Math with SymPy
Chapter 5: Playing with Sets and Probability
Chapter 6: Drawing Geometric Shapes and Fractals
Chapter 7: Solving Calculus Problems

Afterword

Appendix A: Software Installation
Appendix B: Overview of Python Topics

Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	Daly City, California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 233 mm
Gewicht	518 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge ► Python
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Computerprogramme / Computeralgebra
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
Schlagworte	Mathematik, Algebra • Mathematik am Computer • Mathematikprogramme • Python • Python (Programmiersprache); Spezielle Anwendungsbereiche
ISBN-10	1-59327-640-0 / 1593276400
ISBN-13	978-1-59327-640-9 / 9781593276409
Zustand	Neuware