Thanks to Caltech for agreeing to make this software open source. See the file "license" for details. Please familiarize yourself with the license.

Presumably you have just downloaded the README file (this one) from /http://netlib.org/math

In the directory docpdf you can start by looking at toc.pdf. This gives the table of contents for the libraries. We would like to point out the following routines as being state of the art, or of having functionality beyond what is normal: 8.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.4, 13.0, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, and 14.3. The rest are all still useful, and some may meet needs you would have trouble finding elsewhere.

This package is designed to make up libraries. For the Fortran libraries, download math77.tgz, then tar xzf math77.tgz will make up a subdirectory MATH77 which contains all the Fortran codes, and demonstration drivers. In the MATH77 directory, edit makefile for your environment. It comes set up for gfortran, debugging on, and no optimization. You will probably want to make some changes.

Next, "make", will make up the library (libmath77.a). You can verify that the demonstration driver that is relevant to your interests works by typing

make demo code=<name>

where <name> is the root name. Thus to run the demonstration driver demo/drdzero.f, you would type make demo code=dzero, since dzero is the root name.

To link these routines into your software, in the link step add -L?/MATH77 -lmath77 (? is where you put this).

For documentation, ordinarily you would just download the documents for the codes you are interested in from docpdf. But if you should want to edit the documentation, or would like .dvi files, or would just like the full set, download doctex.tgz, tar xzf doctex.tgz, and from inside the doctex subdirectory type ./texall. (You may have set this file executable before trying to execute it.) This is a bash script that will make up all the documentation for the library, with .dvi, .pdf, and .ps files. Give it a little time, it has a lot to do.

For an unknown, limited time, you can pick up the documentation and code for individual codes at http://mathalacarte.com. You are also welcome to throw large sums of money to Math a la Carte.

Complaints should be directed to fkrogh@mathalacarte.com