Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the r… ...

In many cases, scientific research takes you into totally new areas of knowledge, never before explored by others. This means the computational work you need to do may be totally new as well. Although ...

It's why Python is becoming a language of choice for scientific computing and one more reason to learn the language. A good example is SymPy, a computer algebra system.

ActiveState this week added open source packages for financial and scientific computing to its ActivePython distribution of the Python programming language. The move is being made as a result of ...