[boost] Re: Boost Mathematicians

From: Hubert Holin (Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-15 04:28:32

Somewhere in the E.U., le 15/06/2004

In article <uvfi7xstw.fsf_at_[hidden]>,
 David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> "Neal D. Becker" <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> > David Abrahams wrote:
> >
> >> Tom Brinkman <reportbase_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >> 
> >>> In short, lets tell the world that this is the
> >>> premiere place for advanced mathmatical library
> >>> development, as I believe that it could be.
> >>>
> >>> Comments?
> >> 
> >> 1.  I think oonumerics.org has the jump on us here, though the site
> >>     seems to be douwn at this moment.
> >> 
> >> 2.  I will be starting work on a rewrite of MTL (the Matrix
> >>     Template Library) for linear algebra soon.
> >> 
> >
> > What do you plan for MTL?  How is it different than ublas?
> 
> MTL is aimed at linear algebra, whereas IIUC ublas is not.  
> 
> There's a lot more to what's in the current plan than I can lay out
> here, but the focus will be on support for different kinds of matrices
> with combinations of these aspects
> 
>       o Shape
>       o Orientation
>       o Symmetry
>       o Sparsity
>       o Blocking
>       o Upper / Lower storage
>       o Unit diagonal
>       o Etc.
> 
> and operations like:
> 
>       o scalar-vector (vector-scalar) multiplication 
>       o vector addition (and subtraction)
>       o apply linear operator (left)
>       o norm
>       o inner product
>       o triangular solve
>       ...
> 
> with expression templates, and of course, zero abstraction penalty ;-)

   Huzzah!

[sorry for the quote/post ratio, but consider the above in factor of 
each and every line  :-)   ]

      Hubert Holin

P.S.: please include singular value decomposition.