GNU Scientific Library 1.0

[Brian Gough]

The first major release of the GNU Scientific Library is now available
for general use.

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a free numerical library for C
programmers.  The routines have been written from scratch by the GSL
team in ANSI C.  They present a modern API, allowing wrappers to be
written for very high level languages.  The library includes a
450-page reference manual and is distributed under the GNU General
Public License.

The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gnu.org in the directory
/gnu/gsl/ or from any mirror site (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html)

The project home page is at http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/

Thanks to everyone who contributed code and bug reports, and to Red
Hat for generously providing hosting services for the project.

The library covers the following areas,

  * Complex Numbers
  * Roots of Polynomials
  * Special Functions
  * Vectors and Matrices
  * Permutations
  * Sorting
  * BLAS Support
  * Linear Algebra
  * Eigensystems
  * Fast Fourier Transforms
  * Quadrature
  * Random Numbers
  * Quasi-Random Sequences
  * Random Distributions
  * Statistics
  * Histograms
  * N-Tuples
  * Monte Carlo Integration
  * Simulated Annealing
  * Differential Equations
  * Interpolation
  * Numerical Differentiation
  * Chebyshev Approximations
  * Series Acceleration
  * Discrete Hankel Transforms
  * Root-Finding
  * Minimization
  * Least-Squares Fitting
  * Physical Constants
  * IEEE Floating-Point

Further information can be found in the GSL Reference Manual and on
the project homepage.