F# for Scientists (discontinued)

This 2007 book covered the research version of F# using Visual Studio 2005 and is now obsolete. The latest May CTP 2009 version of F# and the latest libraries (Windows Presentation Foundation, the Task Parallel Library and LINQ) are covered in our new book F# for Technical Computing

Chapters

  1. Introduction (free PDF! and full source code)
  2. Program structure (full source code)
  3. Data structures (full source code)
  4. Numerical analysis (full source code)
  5. Input and output
  6. Simple examples
  7. Visualization
  8. Optimization
  9. Libraries
  10. Databases
  11. Interoperability
  12. Complete examples
  13. Troubleshooting

Book stores

F# for Scientists is available on-line from the following stores:

Testimonials

"Excellent from first to last." - James O'Brien (read the full review)

"I was blown away with this book." - Sparky Dasrath (read the full review)

"I wish more books were written at this level of quality... it's well organized, well written, and draws from classic examples in mathematical computing." - Jamie Bernardin, President and Founder of DataSynapse (read the full review)

"...gives the reader a true idea of what functional programming is really about, what it should be used for and how it should be used." - Federico de Vita, Acacia, UK (read the full review)

"As someone who works in scientific computing, I have always wished for a reference that would explain how to use this family of languages in scientific contexts. This book provides an excellent discussion of this topic." - Matthew Sottile (read the full review)

"The book is wonderful and if you end up liking it as much as I did, there's a paid subscription to a journal by the same author where you'll get bimonthly articles along the same line" - Steven Burns (read the full review)

"The best F# book" - Lew, Connecticut USA (read the full review)

"I'm a big fan of your work - your book F# for Scientist is excellent and I learned a lot from it." - Matthew Moloney

"...by far the best book I've come across is F# For Scientists." - (read the original)

"...an excellent book and an invaluable resource for those working in quantitative computing." - Chris Smith, Microsoft Redmond (read the full review)

"I have to say, it is fantastic..." - Matt Valerio (read the full review)

"I really enjoyed your book, "F# for Scientists". I am a long time imperative programmer that has just discovered functional programming. I have a MS in Applied Mathematics and F# is just so interesting to me. It is what I spend my extra time on now." - Kevin Wright, Texas USA

"The visualization chapter is so beautiful, so crisp. It's like waking up to see snow clad mountains out your window." - Don Syme, Microsoft Research

"The best book on the subject." - Steve Yetter

"One of the best technical expositions I have ever read." - David Glaubman

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