This is a textbook which origins come from a course in an university. On the

one hand, this makes the author to explain things absolutely obvious, clearly

oriented to students in the first years of their technical degree. On the

other hand, some of these explanations become handy if you have to teach this

material or even, sometimes, to learn the origins of something that you have

accepted as obvious without knowing exactly why is so. This is particularly

relevant in those parts dealing with mathematics (many in the book). The book

probably is of no use for an expert on SciPy/Numpy, but it is definitely useful for

people, like me, that is starting to discover the enormous capabilities of

these python language extensions. I clearly recommend this book for such

target users. The book is also excellently well written, with a clear and

concise style. Errors seem to be absent from the text and exercises are very

well targeted to the area of scientific computation.