Scientific computing

• Computer science changed science and engineering forever!

Some of the main applications are:

• Solving equations (linear algebra, differential equations, etc.);
• Doing numerical calculations (e.g., solve integrals, derivatives, roots of a function, etc.);
• Doing optimization (e.g. finding the minimum (or maximum) of a function);
• Doing lots of complex calculations with high-performance computing (HPC) (for example, in physics and astronomy)
• Building statistical and mathematical models (for example, in machine learning);
• Visualizing data (and also sonificating data)
• Simulating processes, phenomena, scenarios, etc

Some commonly used software suites are MATLAB and Octave. However, Python is also VERY powerful with the use of libraries numpy, scipy and matplotlib.