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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)

Further reading

There are a large number of textbooks on statistics and statistical theory. The following books are good references for the statistics covered in this chapter:

  • Mendenhall, W., Beaver, R., and Beaver, B. (2006), Introduction To Probability And Statistics. 12th ed., (Belmont, Calif.: Thomson Brooks/Cole).
  • Freedman, D., Pisani, R., and Purves, R. (2007), Statistics. New York: W.W. Norton.

The pandas documentation (https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/index.html) and the following pandas book serve as good references for working with pandas:

  • McKinney, W., (2017), Python for Data Analysis. 2nd ed., (Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, Inc, US).

The SciPy documentation (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/tutorial/stats.html) also contains detailed information about the statistics module that was used several times in this chapter.