GNU Scientific Library: installation and basic usage

Lecture

1. GSL installation and basic usage.
2. gsl-config script.

Reading

1. GSL manual chapters 'Introduction', 'Using the library', 'Vectors and Matrices', and 'Eigensystems/Real Symmetric Matrices'.

Exercises

1. Install GSL on your box. First search for the GSL developement library in you system,

   apt-cache search libgsl | grep development
   

   It should return either libgsl0-dev or libgls-dev, depending on your system. Install this package,

   sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev
   

   or

   sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev
   

   The HomeBrew users should (apparently) use the command

   brew install gsl
   

   Alternatively, you can download the source code and build the library on your box.

2. Questions 7.
3. Exercise "GSL". Hints: examples/gsl.