by Hans Koch (Author)
Welcome to Python in Science! A few short stories will introduce you to some very versatile tools, which might well support you in daily life as an engineer or scientist: visualization, image processing, statistics, differential equations, optimization, symbolic algebra, etc.. Emphasis is put on realistic applications, not so much on language skills. Nevertheless, you will learn some basic Python on the fly. The book intends to help you to master the first hurdles. Once, your appetite is whetted, you'll become addicted, I'm sure!
Contents
Chapter 1
To whom it may concern
python(x,y)
Chapter 2
Brave New World
python
Chapter 3
All strings in your hand!
spyder
Chapter 4
Paint it black!
matplotlib
Chapter 5
Dress to impress!
mayavi
Chapter 6
Bake your own .py!
my.py
Chapter 7
Will you still feed me?
physionet
Chapter 8
Like a Nobel laureate
numpy
Chapter 9
Let it roll!
vtk
Chapter 10
Some physics
scipy
Chapter 11
Perfect fit?
itk
Chapter 12
Glue
itk-vtk
Chapter 13
Back to school
sympy
Chapter 14
Optimistic optimization
cvxopt
Chapter 15
Are you certain?
uncertainties
Chapter 16
Your own statistics
statsmodels
Chapter 17
Publish or perish!
reportlab
Chapter 18
Tools
Table of tools