Milan Rusev wrote:
"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Um have you seen: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_too... ?
Ah, I hadn't seen it indeed, sorry. Seems like MPL is being developed too: http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/libs/accumulators/doc/html/index.html#a....
I'll give it another try (this time I checked the docs more thoroughly :)). While I was thinking about the library I thought it would be good to have a general set of algorithms for dealing with real functions. So I thought about numerically computing some popular functionals:
get_derivative(Fun f); get_integral(Fun f); get_definite_integral(Fun f, T a, T b); get_function(samples); // e.g. interpolation with a polynomial/splines/... get_polynomial_approximation(Fun f);
and transforms: FFT, wavelet transform, etc.
Fun could be anything with T operator()(T x): get_integral(_1*_1+_1)(x);
All good ideas, but I'd encourage you to concentrate on one field and make a really good proposal based on that. For example a good numeric quaderature / ODE solver library would probably fill a summers work, likewise the other ideas, if you have time to do them all then great, but it's generally better to submit a tightly focused proposal with a clear vision of than a larger ragbag of ideas. HTH and good luck! John.