GNU Scientific Library
The GNU Scientific Library (or GSL) is a software library for numerical computations in applied mathematics and science. The GSL is written in C; wrappers are available for other programming languages. The GSL is part of the GNU Project and is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Feature
The complete range of subject areas covered by the library includes,
- 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 Approximation: Series Acceleration
- Discrete Hankel Transforms: Root-Finding
- Minimization: Least-Squares Fitting
- Physical Constants: IEEE Floating-Point
- Discrete Wavelet Transforms: Basis splines