Who this book is for

This book is the outcome of a course on Python for scientific computing which is taught at Lund University since 2008. The course expanded over the years, and condensed versions of the material were taught at universities in Cologne, Trondheim, Stavanger, Soran, Lappeenranta and also in computation oriented companies.

Our belief is that Python and its surrounding scientific computing ecosystem — SciPy, NumPY and matplotlib — represent a tremendous progress in scientific computing environment. Python and the aforementioned libraries are free and open source. What’s more, is a modern language featuring all the bells and whistles that this adjective entails: object oriented programming, testing, advanced shell with IPython, etc. ...

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