Beginners Guide / Mathematics¶

Read the official tutorial or a book if you have no experience with Python.

1. be aware that there are accuracy issues with floating-point arithmetic

   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Accuracy_problems

   • https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/decimal.html

   • https://www.sympy.org

   • http://mpmath.org

2. review the operators

3. be aware of the built-in functions: all, any, divmod, map, max, min, print, reverse, round, sum

   • https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

4. be aware of the included modules:

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/math.html

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/statistics.html

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/decimal.html

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/fractions.html

   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/itertools.html

5. read the control flow section of the official tutorial

6. read about list comprehensions

Investigate:

• http://www.sagemath.org

• https://scipy.org

• https://www.spyder-ide.org/

• https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole (ipython)

• https://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific

Examples:

• https://pymotw.com/3/math/

• https://pymotw.com/3/statistics/

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Geometry

• https://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/mathematics/

• https://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/math

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+math

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mathematics_with_Python_and_Ruby/Fractions_in_Python

Q&A:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python

• https://python-forum.io

• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/