April 29, 2000
3:50 p.m.
A very complete set of special functions is already wrapped by Travis Oliphant. But there are numerous other functions in GSL which would be worthwhile to connect to NumPy. Look for the cephes module. One benefit of using such a general library covering different areas is, that with one form of interface a whole slew of functions can be wrapped which also make the packaging a lot easier. Also I think the library is desinged with wrapping to other languages. Just to mention another library with a similar scope, but which is older, perhaps more mature there is also SLATEC from netlib. __Janko