SciPy - Introduction

SciPy, pronounced as Sigh Pi, is a scientific python open source, distributed under the BSD pcensed pbrary to perform Mathematical, Scientific and Engineering Computations.

The SciPy pbrary depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy pbrary is built to work with NumPy arrays and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical practices such as routines for numerical integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular operating systems, are quick to install and are free of charge. NumPy and SciPy are easy to use, but powerful enough to depend on by some of the world s leading scientists and engineers.

SciPy Sub-packages

SciPy is organized into sub-packages covering different scientific computing domains. These are summarized in the following table −

Data Structure

The basic data structure used by SciPy is a multidimensional array provided by the NumPy module. NumPy provides some functions for Linear Algebra, Fourier Transforms and Random Number Generation, but not with the generapty of the equivalent functions in SciPy.