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## Appendix B Contributors to GSL

(See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for up-to-date information.)

Mark Galassi
  Conceived GSL (with James Theiler) and wrote the design document. Wrote the simulated annealing package and the relevant chapter in the manual.
James Theiler
  Conceived GSL (with Mark Galassi). Wrote the random number generators and the relevant chapter in this manual.
Jim Davies
  Wrote the statistical routines and the relevant chapter in this manual.
Brian Gough
  FFTs, numerical integration, random number generators and distributions, root finding, minimization and fitting, polynomial solvers, complex numbers, physical constants, permutations, vector and matrix functions, histograms, statistics, ieee-utils, revised cblas Level 2 & 3, matrix decompositions, eigensystems, cumulative distribution functions, testing, documentation and releases.
Reid Priedhorsky
  Wrote and documented the initial version of the root finding routines while at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group.
Gerard Jungman
  Special Functions, Series acceleration, ODEs, BLAS, Linear Algebra, Eigensystems, Hankel Transforms.
Mike Booth
  Wrote the Monte Carlo library.
Jorma Olavi Tähtinen
  Wrote the initial complex arithmetic functions.
Thomas Walter
  Wrote the initial heapsort routines and cholesky decomposition.
Fabrice Rossi
  Multidimensional minimization.
Carlo Perassi
  Implementation of the random number generators in Knuth's Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd Ed.
Szymon Jaroszewicz
  Wrote the routines for generating combinations.
Nicolas Darnis
  Wrote the cyclic functions and the initial functions for canonical permutations.
Jason H. Stover
  Wrote the major cumulative distribution functions.
Ivo Alxneit
  Wrote the routines for wavelet transforms.
Tuomo Keskitalo
  Improved the implementation of the ODE solvers.
Lowell Johnson
  Implementation of the Mathieu functions.
Patrick Alken
  Implementation of non-symmetric and generalized eigensystems and B-splines.

Thanks to Nigel Lowry for help in proofreading the manual.

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