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JavaScript has plenty of libraries covering the basics. Here a few:
https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs
https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-math
https://smartbear.com/de/blog/2013/four-serious-math-librari...
That's not the problem. The problem is mindshare and network effects. When analyzing why Python is used one way and JS another we're tempted to retroactively rationalize this with something fundamental about the language. There's nothing fundamental about it. It's just happenstance. Python was around longer as a general purpose script, and it filled that niche. JS is relatively new as a script outside the browser.