On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Hadidi, Lars <lhadidi@students.uni-mainz.de> wrote:

I'd like to know which method is employed here.

Have you tried reading the implementation (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/boost/random/normal_distribution.hpp)? 

Hint: The first comment after the includes is

// tables for the ziggurat algorithm