Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Some highlights (as compared to Numeric package)
  • Previously added features
  • Latest features (version 0.4.0)
• Installation
  • Prerequisite
  • Installation with make
  • Installation by hand copying
• Getting started and examples
  • Getting started
  • Tests of basic operations
  • Tests of linear algebra operations
  • Tests of slicing into submatrices
  • Tests of assembling from block matrices
  • Tests of elementwise operations with extensions
  • Tests of the shape attribute
  • Tests of interaction with scalers
  • Tests of various multiplications
  • Tests of gplot module
  • Tests of elementwise functions
  • Tests of matrix functions
  • Tests of tensor operations
  • Tests of various transpose and flips
  • Tests of elementwise comparison
  • Tests of probability distributions
  • Tests of statistical functions
  • Tests of statistical utilities
  • Tests of tests kalman filter on a random walk
• Graphics with gnuplot
  • Graphics generated with gnuplot
  • Graphics of elementwise functions
  • Graphics of statistical functions
  • Graphics of probability distributions
  • Graphics of histograms
  • Gnuplot preferences for X11
• List of names
  • Modules and classes
  • Functions
  • Imported names in matpy interpreter
• A dedicated interactive console
• Design and implementation issues
  • Vectors as matrices
  • Do we need a scalar class?
  • Efficiency issues
  • Robustness, especially complex numbers
  • Elementwise versus matrix functions