Hemant Kumar Mehta - Mastering Python Scientific Computing

Hemant Kumar Mehta is a distributed and scientific computing enthusiast. He has more than 13 years of experience of teaching, research, and software development. He received his BSc (in computer science) Hons., master of computer applications degree, and PhD in computer science from Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India in 1998, 2001, and 2011, respectively. He has experience of working in diverse international environments as a software developer in MNCs. He is a post-doctorate fellow at an international university of high reputation.

Hemant has published more than 20 highly cited research papers in reputed national and international conferences and journals sponsored by ACM, IEEE, and Springer. He is the author of Getting Started with Oracle Public Cloud , Packt Publishing . He is also the coauthor of a book named Internet and Web Technology , published by Kaushal Prakashan Mandir, Indore.

He earned his PhD in the field of cloud computing and big data. Hemant is a member of ACM (Special Interest Group on High-performance Computing Education: SIGHPC-Edu), senior member of IEEE (the computer society, STC on cloud computing, and the big data technical committee), and a senior member of IACSIT, IAENG, and MIR Labs.

I am extremely thankful to my PhD supervisors, namely Professor Priyesh Kanungo and the late Professor Manohar Chandwani from Devi Ahilya University. Their words work as continuous guiding lights in my career and life.

I express heartfelt thanks to my dear student and friend, Pawan Pawar, for helping me develop some programs for this book.

I am also thankful to the entire Packt Publishing team and the reviewers for their tremendous support in maintaining the highest quality of work in this book.

Most of all, I thank my family. I am infinitely grateful to my parents. I thank my wife, Priya, and darling sons, Luv and Darsh, for whom this acknowledgement cannot be covered in words.

Austen Groener was raised in Southfield, Massachusetts, USA. He completed his BA in physics from Hartwick College and went on to pursue his MS and PhD in physics from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a reputed astrophysicist, with research interests surrounding the detailed distribution of dark matter within the largest objects in the universegalaxy clusters. When he is not studying the cosmos, he enjoys spending his free time developing software tools for other astronomers to use. Austen has a newfound interest in web development.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their unwavering support. To my wife, Brittany: you are the love of my life, my best friend, and my inspiration.

Sachin R. Joglekar is a computer science graduate from BITS-Pilani (Goa campus) in India. His areas of interest primarily include machine learning and intelligent systems. He graduated in December 2014. Since then, he has been working as the cofounder of a start-up based in Mumbai. His work involves the design and development of server infrastructure and backend analytics for sensor networks. Sachin has also worked as an open source developer for SymPy, a symbolic computing library written in pure Python. His work at Google Summer of Code 2014 involved developing the vector module for SymPy.

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To my parents and my gurus, Late Prof. Manohar Chandwani and Prof. Priyesh Kanungo