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Python For Engineering and Scientific Computing
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Python For Engineering and Scientific Computing

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Veit Steinkamp
June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
515 pages
17h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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5    Symbolic Computation Using SymPy

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to perform symbolic computations using the SymPy module. This chapter covers standard topics in engineering mathematics such as differentiations, integrations, differential equations, and Laplace transformations.

SymPy is a Python library for computer algebra. The SymPy module is written entirely in Python and consists of several hundred thousand program lines. The developers of SymPy pursued the goal of creating a complete computer algebra system (CAS).

A CAS is a computer program for computing algebraic expressions. In this context, mathematical operations are not performed with numbers but with symbols. A minimal CAS consists of a user interface (Window-based version, terminal ...

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