Who this book is for

This book is for students with a mathematical background, university teachers designing modern courses in programming, data scientists, researchers, developers, and anyone who wants to perform scientific computation in Python. The book evolved from 13 years of Python teaching in undergraduate science and engineering programs, as special industry in-house courses and specialization courses for high school teachers. The typical reader has the need to use Python in areas like mathematics, big  data processings, machine learning and simulation. Therefore a basic knowledge of vectors and matrices as well of notions like convergence and iterative processes is beneficial.