F# for scientists / Jon Harrop ; foreword by Don Syme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrop, Jon D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

F (Computer program language).

Functional programming (Computer science).

Science--Data processing.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

F sharp for scientists

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

""This work strikes a balance between the pure functional aspects of F# and the object-oriented and imperative features that make it so useful in practice, enable .NET integration, and make large-scale data processing possible.""-Thore Graepel, PhD, Researcher, Microsoft Research Ltd. Over the next five years, F# is expected to become one of the world's most popular functional programming languages for scientists of all disciplines working on the Windows platform. F# is free and, unlike MATLAB® and other software with numerical/scientific origins, is a full-fledged programming language.<

Contents:

Introduction. Programming guidelines

A brief history of F#

Benefits of F#

Introducing F#

Imperative programming

Functional programming

Program structure. Nesting

Factoring

Modules. Objects

Functional design patterns

F# development

Data structures. Algorithmic complexity

Arrays

Lists

Sets

Hash tables

Maps

Choosing a data structure

Sequences

Heterogeneous containers

Trees

Numerical Analysis. Number

Algebra

Interpolation

Quadratic solutions

Mean and variance

Other forms of arithmetic

Input and Output. Printing

Generic printing

Reading from and writing to files

Serialization

Lexing and parsing

Simple Examples. Functional

Numerical

String related

List related

Array related

Higher order functions

Visualization. Windows forms

Managed directX

Tesselating objects into triangles

Optimization. Timing

Profiling

Algorithmic optimizations

Lower level optimizations

Libraries. Loading .NET libraries

Charting and graphing

Threads

Random numbers

Regular expressions

Vectors and matrices

Downloading from the Web

Compression

Handling XML

Calling native libraries

Fourier transform

Metaprogramming

Databases. Protein data bank

Web services

Relational databases

Interoperability. Excel interoperability

MATLAB interoperability

Mathematica interoperability

Complete examples. Fast Fourier transform

Semicircle law

Finding nth nearest neighbors

Logistic map

Real time particle dynamics

Appendix A: Troubleshooting.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 28, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-327) and index.

ISBN:

9786611766887

9781118210819

1118210816

9781281766885

1281766887

9780470385951

0470385952

9780470385944

0470385944

OCLC:

264703259