Overview
Numerous readers of the second edition have noti?ed me about misprints and possible improvements of the text and the associated computer codes. The resulting modi?cations have been incorporated in this new edition and its accompanying software. The major change between the second and third editions, however, is caused by the new implementation of Numerical Python, now called numpy. The new numpy package encourages a slightly di?erent syntax compared to the old Numeric implementation, which was used in the previous editions. Since Numerical Python functionality appears in a lot of places in the book, there are hence a huge number of updates to the new suggested numpy syntax, especially in Chapters 4, 9, and 10. The second edition was based on Python version 2.3, while the third edition contains updates for version 2.5. Recent Python features, such as generator expressions (Chapter 8.9.4), Ctypes for interfacing shared libraries in C (Chapter 5.2.2), the with statement (Chapter 3.1.4), and the subprocess module for running external processes (Chapter 3.1.3) have been exempli?ed to make the reader aware of new tools. Chapter 4.4.4 is new and gives a taste of symbolic mathematics in Python.
Full Product Details
Author: Hans Petter Langtangen
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 3rd ed. 2008
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.175kg
ISBN: 9783642093159
ISBN 10: 3642093159
Pages: 756
Publication Date: 22 November 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9783642219627
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition: This book addresses primarily a CSE (computational science and engineering) audience. ... gives a clear and detailed account on the ways in which the surprisingly powerful Python language may aid the CSE community. (H. Muthsam, Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)
From the reviews of the second edition: This book addresses primarily a CSE (computational science and engineering) audience. ! gives a clear and detailed account on the ways in which the surprisingly powerful Python language may aid the CSE community. (H. Muthsam, Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)
"From the reviews of the second edition: ""This book addresses primarily a CSE (computational science and engineering) audience. … gives a clear and detailed account on the ways in which the surprisingly powerful Python language may aid the CSE community."" (H. Muthsam, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)"
