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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

The main plotting package for Python is Matplotlib, which can be installed using your favorite package manager, such as pip:

python3.10 -m pip install matplotlib

This will install the most recent version of Matplotlib, which, at the time of writing this book, is version 3.5.2.

Matplotlib contains numerous sub-packages, but the main user interface (UI) is the matplotlib.pyplot package, which, by convention, is imported under the plt alias. This is achieved using the following import statement:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Many of the recipes in this chapter also require NumPy, which, as usual, is imported under the np alias.

The code for this chapter can be found in the Chapter 02 folder of the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applying-Math-with-Python-2nd-Edition/tree/main/Chapter%2002.