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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)

Working with Data and Statistics

One of the most attractive features of Python for people who need to analyze data is the huge ecosystem of data manipulation and analysis packages, as well as the active community of data scientists working with Python. Python is easy to use, while also offering very powerful, fast libraries, which enables even relatively novice programmers to quickly and easily process vast sets of data. At the heart of many data science packages and tools is the pandas library. pandas provides two data container types that build on top of NumPy arrays and have good support for labels (other than simple integers). These data containers make working with large sets of data extremely easy.

Data and statistics are part of everything in the modern world. Python is leading the charge in trying to make sense of the vast quantity of data produced every day, and usually, this all starts with pandas – Python’s basic library for working with data. First, we...