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Doing Math with Python teaches readers how to use the Python programming language as a powerful tool to delve into math concepts. Python is perfect for exploring topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. Readers learn to write programs to find derivatives, solve equations graphically, manipulate algebraic expressions, even examine projectile motion. Instead of cranking through tedious calculations by hand, readers learn to use Python to do the number crunching so that they can focus on the principles behind the math. Along the way, readers learn to think computationally and employ fundamental programming techniques, like using functions, handling user input, and reading and manipulating data. This is a perfect book for teens with an interest in math but who have yet to be turned on to programming. Doing Math with Python will give them a powerful skillset to continue learning and
exploring math and computer science.

Klappentext

Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school-level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. You'll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you've gotten the hang of things.

Along the way, you'll discover new ways to explore math and gain valuable programming skills that you'll use throughout your study of math and computer science. Learn how to:

-Describe your data with statistics, and visualize it with line graphs, bar charts, and scatter plots

-Explore set theory and probability with programs for coin flips, dicing, and other games of chance

-Solve algebra problems using Python's symbolic math functions

-Draw geometric shapes and explore fractals like the Barnsley fern, the Sierpinski triangle, and the Mandelbrot set

-Write programs to find derivatives and integrate functions

Creative coding challenges and applied examples help you see how you can put your new math and coding skills into practice. You'll write an inequality solver, plot gravity's effect on how far a bullet will travel, shuffle a deck of cards, estimate the area of a circle by throwing 100, 000 "darts" at a board, explore the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, and more.

Whether you're interested in math but have yet to dip into programming or you're a teacher looking to bring programming into the classroom, you'll find that Python makes programming easy and practical. Let Python handle the grunt work while you focus on the math.

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