From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11679 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2002 22:31:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11672 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2002 22:31:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blueyonder.co.uk) (195.188.53.94) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Aug 2002 22:31:26 -0000 Received: from pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:31:25 +0100 Received: from localhost (unverified [80.192.11.25]) by pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:31:24 +0100 Received: by network-theory.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ldj@host-245-233-220-24.midco.net; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:31:03 +0100 (BST) From: Brian Gough MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15702.58791.383574.713308@debian> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:31:00 -0000 To: Lowell Johnson Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Mathieu functions In-Reply-To: References: X-SW-Source: 2002-q3/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 Lowell Johnson writes: > Well, I developed Fortran versions of the angular and radial > Mathieu functions (complex arguments) as part of my thesis back > around '90. So I suppose I can dust off the old code, convert it > to C, and align it with the GSL coding standards. This sounds ideal. Nobody else is working on them to my knowledge. You might want to do some searching and see if there have been any new developments in the field since 1990. > I'm not sure how quickly I'll get this all done, so if someone > wants to take my (practically uncommented) Fortran and do the > conversion, let me know. Otherwise, I'll pick away at it as time > allows. > The complex radial Mathieu functions are functions of the complex > Bessel and Hankel functions. Does the GSL compute complex Bessel > functions? No. I should have added them to the task list. Brian