press starch Math Adventures With Python An Illustrated Guide to Exploring Math with Code by Peter Farrell San no Francisco
This book is dedicated to all my students from whom I’ve learned so much
About the Author Peter Farrell was a math teacher for eight years starting first as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya He then worked as a computer science teacher for three years After reading Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms and being introduced to Python by a student he was inspired to bring programming into math class He is passionate about using computers to make learning math more relevant fun and challenging About the Technical Reviewer Paddy Gaunt graduated in engineering within weeks of the birth of the IBM PC and its associated MS DOS Much of the rest of his career has revolved around implementing mathematical or technical technical concepts in practical software Recently he reformed links with Cambridge University UK when he became lead developer of pi3d a python module for 3D graphics initially designed to run on the Raspberry Pi computer
