Just in case, a few years back I've seen an article on functional programming in python. Mostly arithmetic but the patterns were very pretty (think Euclid algorithm generalized). I never managed to find it again. If that rings a bell to someone, I'll be forever virtually indebted.
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog/
- http://kachayev.github.io/talks/uapycon2012/#/
- http://anandology.com/python-practice-book/functional-progra...
- http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-t...
- http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Numerical_integration#Python