Open AccessConstructing scientific programs using SymPy
Author(s) -
Mark Dewing
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the python in science conferences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 2575-9752
DOI - 10.25080/majora-ebaa42b7-006
Subject(s) - computer science , workflow , theoretical computer science , process (computing) , code (set theory) , source code , partition (number theory) , programming language , computational science , algorithm , calculus (dental) , mathematics , database , set (abstract data type) , combinatorics , medicine , dentistry
We describe a method for constructing scientific programs where SymPy is used to model the mathematical steps in the derivation. With this workflow, each step in the process can be checked by machine, from the derivation of the equations to the generation of the source code. We present an example based on computing the partition function integrals in statistical mechanics.
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