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Applying Math with Python
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Applying Math with Python

by Sam Morley
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
8h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Calculus and Differential Equations

In this chapter, we will discuss various topics related to calculus. Calculus is the branch of mathematics that concerns the processes of differentiation and integration. Geometrically, the derivative of a function represents the gradient of the curve of the function, and the integral of a function represents the area below the curve of the function. Of course, these characterizations only hold in certain circumstances, but they provide a reasonable foundation for this chapter.

We start by looking at calculus for a simple class of functions: the polynomials. In the first recipe, we create a class that represents a polynomial and define methods that differentiate and integrate the polynomial. Polynomials ...

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