---
name: "gsl"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "gsl"
version: "2.8-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gsl/3"
---

# gsl(3)

GNU Scientific Library

## NAME

gsl - GNU Scientific Library

## SYNOPSIS

\#include \<gsl/...\>

## DESCRIPTION

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical computing.  The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern Applications Programming Interface (API) for C programmers, allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.

The library covers the following areas,

- Complex Numbers

  ```
  Roots of Polynomials
  Special Functions
  Vectors and Matrices
  Permutations
  Combinations
  Sorting
  BLAS Support
  Linear Algebra
  Eigensystems
  Fast Fourier Transforms
  Quadrature
  Random Numbers
  Quasi-Random Sequences
  Random Distributions
  Statistics
  Histograms
  N-Tuples
  Monte Carlo Integration
  Simulated Annealing
  Differential Equations
  Interpolation
  Numerical Differentiation
  Chebyshev Approximations
  Series Acceleration
  Discrete Hankel Transforms
  Root-Finding
  Minimization
  Least-Squares Fitting
  Physical Constants
  IEEE Floating-Point
  ```

For more information please consult the GSL Reference Manual, which is available as an info file.  You can read it online using the shell command  **info gsl-ref** (if the library is installed).

Please report any bugs to  **bug-gsl@gnu.org.**