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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)

Technical requirements

This chapter requires many different packages due to the nature of the recipes it contains. The list of packages we need is as follows:

  • Pint
  • uncertainties
  • netCDF4
  • xarray
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-learn
  • GeoPandas
  • Geoplot
  • Jupyter
  • Papermill
  • Cerberus
  • Cython
  • Dask

All of these packages can be installed using your favorite package manager, such as pip:

python3.10 -m pip install pint uncertainties netCDF4 xarray pandas scikit-learn geopandas geoplot jupyter papermill cerberus cython

To install the Dask package, we need to install the various extras associated with the package. We can do this using the following pip command in the terminal:

python3.10 -m pip install dask[complete]

In addition to these Python packages, we will also need to install some supporting software. For the Working with geographical data recipe, the GeoPandas and Geoplot libraries have numerous lower-level dependencies that might need...