Is Python any good with math programs?

Hey Y'all,

I am the Bill Buckner of computers. I just started at the age of 62. I am a piss ant.

None the less, here I am.

So please, treat me with kid gloves! I am totally ignorant and understand that, ignorant is the definition of beginning.

Does Python do anything as far as a mathmatics programs?

Have you ever heard of doing a program in mathmatics with polyominoes?

I am learning as fast as I can, but I just got started, so please bear with me.

Thank you for your understanding of my ignorance.

Sure, python is fine with math. The enthought python distribution includes scipy and has, roughly, matlab equivalence. I searched the internet for
polyominoes python
with many hits.

Hey, why python? Try j.
Executable Iverson notation

Either way, we'll give you a first baseman's glove.

Absolutely. The mathematics community has been slowly shifting away from the standard proprietary tools (Matlab, Mathematica, etc.) to free-software tools, many of which are built on Python or interface nicely with Python.

• Numpy/scipy are the primary package for numerical computation. (Numpy is basically the numerical core of scipy.) There's also cvxopt for convex optimization. I've been using the combination of numpy/scipy/matplotlib/cvxopt for computations with real-world data over the past few years.
• For not-so-numerical computation, you may want to look into Sage, which from what I understand is based on Python and can be used as a Python module. I haven't used it much, but lots of people (including mathematicians) think highly of it.
• There's always pure Python. It's very easy to implement data structures and algorithms in Python. My main caveat is efficiency: programs written in pure Python will be significantly slower than their counterparts in a compiled language like C, C++, or Fortran.

Is that like a polynomial dominoe?