Re: [boost] Numerical integration library?

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-31 11:46:06

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> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Frederick Akalin
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:17 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Numerical integration library?
> 
> I notice numerical integration was one of the items listed in the 
> ExpandedMathematicsLibrary entry under WantedLibraries in the 
> Wiki.  Has 
> anyone done any work on this?  I've been looking into this 
> problem space 
> lately; I had the germ of an idea that, with the magic of templates, 
> most ODE solvers (e.g. Euler, Runge-Kutta, etc.) could be 
> written in a 
> container-agnostic format and in a form closely resembling that which 
> you would find in a textbook. (I can post some 
> proof-of-concept code if 
> this isn't clear.) I've looked around and haven't seen 
> anything similar, 
> but I'm no expert on scientific programming.

I'm unsure what ODE's have to do with integrals.

Anyway, for solving PDEs one should look at
http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~pflaum/expde/public_html/index.
html for an example.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has used this library :)

Sohail