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Applying Math with Python - Second Edition

By : Sam Morley
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Applying Math with Python - Second Edition

By: Sam Morley

Overview of this book

The updated edition of Applying Math with Python will help you solve complex problems in a wide variety of mathematical fields in simple and efficient ways. Old recipes have been revised for new libraries and several recipes have been added to demonstrate new tools such as JAX. You'll start by refreshing your knowledge of several core mathematical fields and learn about packages covered in Python's scientific stack, including NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. As you progress, you'll gradually get to grips with more advanced topics of calculus, probability, and networks (graph theory). Once you’ve developed a solid base in these topics, you’ll have the confidence to set out on math adventures with Python as you explore Python's applications in data science and statistics, forecasting, geometry, and optimization. The final chapters will take you through a collection of miscellaneous problems, including working with specific data formats and accelerating code. By the end of this book, you'll have an arsenal of practical coding solutions that can be used and modified to solve a wide range of practical problems in computational mathematics and data science.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Executing a Jupyter notebook as a script

Jupyter notebooks are a popular medium for writing Python code for scientific and data-based applications. A Jupyter notebook is really a sequence of blocks that is stored in a file in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) with the ipynb extension. Each block can be one of several different types, such as code or markdown. These notebooks are typically accessed through a web application that interprets the blocks and executes the code in a background kernel that then returns the results to the web application. This is great if you are working on a personal PC, but what if you want to run the code contained within a notebook remotely on a server? In this case, it might not even be possible to access the web interface provided by the Jupyter Notebook software. The papermill package allows us to parameterize and execute notebooks from the command line.

In this recipe, we’ll learn how to execute a Jupyter notebook from the command line using...