NumPy includes linear algebra routines that can be quite handy. For
example, NumPy can calculate matrix and vector products efficiently (dot,
vdot), solve eigenproblems (linalg.eig, linalg.eigvals), solve linear
systems (linalg.solve), and do matrix inversion (linalg.inv).
A = numpy.array(((2, 1), (1, 3)))
B = numpy.array(((-2, 4.2), (4.2, 6)))
C = numpy.dot(A, B)
b = numpy.array((1, 2))
print(C)
# output:
# [[ 0.2 14.4]
# [ 10.6 22.2]]
print(b)
# output: [1 2]
# solve C x = b
x = numpy.linalg.solve(C, b)
print(x)
# output: [ 0.04453441 0.06882591]Normally, NumPy utilises high performance numerical libraries in linear algebra operations. This means that the performance of NumPy is actually quite good and not far e.g. from the performance of a pure-C implementations using the same libraries.
NumPy has also support for polynomials. One can for example do least square fitting, find the roots of a polynomial, and evaluate a polynomial.
A polynomial f(x) is defined by an 1D array of coefficients (p) with
length N, such that
# f(x) = x^2 + random noise (between 0,1)
x = numpy.linspace(-4, 4, 7)
f = x**2 + numpy.random.random(x.shape)
p = numpy.polyfit(x, f, 2)
print(p)
# output: [ 0.96869003 -0.01157275 0.69352514]
# f(x) = p[0] * x^2 + p[1] * x + p[2]