[Bug-gsl] UTF-8 THANKS

[Orion Poplawski]

Fedora package needs to convert THANKS to UTF-8.  Perhaps this could be
accepted upstream.


-- 
Orion Poplawski
Technical Manager                     303-415-9701 x222
NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office             FAX: 303-415-9702
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Boulder, CO 80301                   http://www.nwra.com

* Jim McElwaine for very useful comments and discussions
  about the dilogarithm and related functions.

* Simone Piccardi <picca...@fi.infn.it> for extensions to the
histogram routines, and providing the ntuple code

* Nelson H. F. Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu> for references and testing
the software on many different platforms.

* Tim Mooney <moo...@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu> for IEEE support for
Tru64, AIX, IRIX, fixes for odes, and testing

* Thomas Walter <wal...@pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de> for heapsort
routines, cholesky decomposition, bug reports and useful suggestions

* Jorma Olavi Tähtinen <jotah...@cc.hut.fi> for complex arithmetic
functions

* Barak Pearlmutter <b...@cs.unm.edu>

* Frederick W. Wheeler <whee...@cipr.rpi.edu>

* Bernd Petrovitsch <be...@ict.tuwien.ac.at>

* Jacek Pliszka <jacek.plis...@fuw.edu.pl> for bug report

* Michele Clark <cl...@cs.unc.edu> for bug report

* Jeffrey Russell Horner <jhor...@cs.utk.edu> for information on CBLAS

* Rahul V. Herwadkar <rherw...@us.oracle.com> for testing

* Trond Bo <d...@dnmi.no> for bug report

* Jan Kasprzak <k...@informatics.muni.cz> for bug report

* David Kaelbling <d...@sgi.com> for testing

* Mark Levedahl <mleved...@fallschurch.esys.com> for bug report

* David Billinghurst <david.billinghu...@riotinto.com.au> for testing

* Jean-Bernard ADDOR <jbad...@sca.uqam.ca> for bug report

* Fabrice Rossi <ro...@ufrmd.dauphine.fr> bug reports and suggestions

* Paul Walmsley <pwalms...@iee.org> for bug report and patch for
  fixing matmult.

* Dave Morrison <d...@bnl.gov> for advice on build procedure and
  various patches, the diff/ numerical differentiation routines,
  multmin documentation, and Landau distribution

* Brett Viren <bvi...@superk.physics.sunysb.edu> for debugging qpsrt.c.

* Christopher Gabriel <cgabr...@firenze.linux.it> contributed the
  gsl-config and gsl.m4 we use.

* C M Murphy <c.m.mur...@bath.ac.uk> patch to fix up consts in header files

* Bracy H. Elton for correcting a reference in the FFT Algorithms document

* Tadhg O'Meara <ta...@net-cs.ucd.ie> for finding a bug in gsl-randist

* Steve Robbins <ste...@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> patch to work around FP_RND
  problems on Tru64, testing and other patches., bug fix for nm_simplex
  algorithm.

* John Fisher <johnf...@uclink4.berkeley.edu> testing on powerpc linux 
  and support for fp-ppclinux.c

* OKUJI Yoshinori <ok...@gnu.org> for a patch for fp-x86linux.c for libc5

* Pablo Bianucci <pb...@pccp.com.ar> for patches to complex matrix/vectors

* Toby White <t...@theor.ch.cam.ac.uk> for several patches and
improvements to the design, OpenBSD support

* Bill Brower <wbro...@ll.mit.edu> for bug report on gsl.m4

* Vladimir Kushnir <vkush...@alfacom.net> for ieee support for FreeBSD

* F J Franklin <mep95...@sheffield.ac.uk> for test reports and debugging

* Keith Briggs <brig...@info.bt.co.uk> for bug reports and code for
the skewed Levy alpha-stable variates gsl_ran_levy_skew

* Vince <vatte...@msu.edu> for permutation iterator functions

* Henry Sobotka <sobo...@axess.com> for ieee support for OS/2 and bug fixes

* Remy Bruno <remy.br...@libertysurf.fr> for bug fix

* M. Lavasani <lavas...@connect.org.uk> for bug reports and testing on HPUX11

* Jason Beegan <jaso...@indigo.ie> for NetBSD support

* Zeger Knops <ze...@cs.uu.nl> for bug fix

* Rodney Sparapani <rspar...@mcw.edu> for Darwin support

* Ramin Nakisa <raminnak...@yahoo.com> for bug reports

* Achim Gaedke <ac...@zpr.uni-koeln.de> for bug reports and
suggestions, additional histogram code, PyGSL python interface, 2d
histogram statistics, bug fixes for simulated annealing

* Eric Rose <er...@memot.unibe.ch> for bug report and useful tip on casting

* M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihl...@cc.helsinki.fi> for bug reports

* Albert Chin <ch...@thewrittenword.com> for bug reports, patches, and
providing HP-UX platforms for testing

* Asterio Gonzalez <agonza...@udiberica.com> for a bug report for multmin

* Carlo Perassi <ca...@linux.it> for implementing the random number
generators in Knuth's Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd Ed.

* Dan, Ho-Jin <hj...@sys713.kaist.ac.kr> for divided differences interpolation
routines

* Stefan Koch <s.k...@seh-zuelpich.de> for useful bug reports and
fixes for the special functions

* Szymon Jaroszewicz <s...@cs.umb.edu> for the combinations modules and
  bug reports

* Theis Peter Hansen <t...@com.dtu.dk> fixed unchecked status values in
multiroots

* Jungemann Markus <markus.jungem...@de.bosch.com> documentation fixes

* Hans E. Plesser (hans dot plesser at itf dot nlh dot no) more
reliable implementation of gamma_inc, multifit bug fixes

* Arin Chaudhuri <acha...@unity.ncsu.edu> documentation bug reports

* Karsten Howes <kars...@videotron.ca> siman bug fix

* Vladimir Savichev <v...@ariel.phys.wesleyan.edu> bug reports

* Jochen Küpper <joc...@jochen-kuepper.de> doc bug fixes, additional
constants

* John Ketchum <jo...@qualcomm.com> for bug reports for the blas library

* Nicolas Darnis <ndar...@cvf.fr> additional permutation functions

* Jeff Spirko <spi...@lehigh.edu> patch for 1d minimization

* David Necas (Yeti) <y...@physics.muni.cz> bug reports and patches
for linear algebra, interpolation, additional tridiagonal solvers

* <zu...@24i.net> for bug report

* Christian T. Steigies <c...@debian.org> for documentation bug report

* Atakan Gurkan <a...@northwestern.edu> for bug reports and patches for the 
random number generators.

* David Ronis <ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for bug reports and
patches

* Christian T. Steigies <c...@debian.org> for a documentation fix

* Teun Burgers <a.rburg...@freeler.nl> improvements to configure script

* Olivier Andrieu <andr...@ijm.jussieu.fr> bug report for Chebyschev
memory leak

* Hiroshi Imamura <h...@cmt.is.tohoku.ac.jp> extension to psi(1+iy)

* Taliver Heath <tali...@paul.rutgers.edu> keep track of best solution
in siman_solve.

* Trevor Blackwell <t...@trevorblackwell.com> bug report test case for
SVD d_n = 0, bug fix to mt19937 generator

* Nicolas Bock <nb...@buffalo.edu> documentation bug report

* Alan Aspuru-Guzik <asp...@okra.cchem.berkeley.edu> documentation bug report

* Peter S. Christopher <pet...@midway.uchicago.edu> bug fix for
simulated annealing

* Gene Carter <ecar...@mindspring.com> build shared libraries on MacOS X

* Fabian Jakobs <fabian.jak...@web.de> fixed a bug in
gsl_linalg_bidiag_unpack_B, and documentation bug-fix for blas

* Gavin Crooks <g...@threeplusone.com> documentation bug fix,
dirichlet distribution, multinomial distribution

* Gert Van den Eynde <gvdey...@sckcen.be> gsl_ldexp, gsl_frexp, gsl_fcmp

* Reinhold Bader <reinhold.ba...@lrz-muenchen.de>, fixes for Hitachi SR8000

* Slaven Peles <pe...@cns.physics.gatech.edu>, build options for
Compaq cc, doc bug fix

* David Favis-Mortlock <d.favis-mortl...@dial.pipex.com> bug report for
gsl_rng_taus2 seeding

* Alexander Babansky <baban...@mail.ru> documentation bug report for Ei(x)

* Tiago de Paula Peixoto <cou...@fissionauthority.com> bug report for multifit
memory allocation

* Adam Johansen <am...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> bug report for eigenvalue routines

* Wolfgang Hoermann <horma...@boun.edu.tr> bug report for niederreiter qrng

* Jerome Houdayer <houda...@spht.saclay.cea.fr> bug report for taus seeding

* Conrad Curry <cwcu...@orca.st.usm.edu> bug and documentation reports

* Erik Schnetter <schnet...@uni-tuebingen.de> documentation bug reports

* Maarten De Munck <ind...@kotnet.org> bug fix for vector/matrix get

* Axel Hutt <h...@wias-berlin.de> bug fix for QAWC integration,
documentation bug fix

* Martin Jansche <jans...@ling.ohio-state.edu> various bug reports

* Gregory Soyez <g.so...@ulg.ac.be> documentation bug report

* Attilio Rivoldini <rivold...@oma.be> bug report for CBLAS tests

* W.M. Vissers <viss...@theochem.kun.nl> bug report for
gsl_complex_arccsc_real

* Paolo Redaelli <paolo.redae...@libero.it> bug report for chebyshev
functions

* Andrew Howard <ahow...@pollux.usc.edu> bug report for gsl_ran_discrete

* Heiko Bauke <heiko.ba...@physik.uni-magdeburg.de> bug reports and patches
for random number generators

* Vincent Sacksteder <vinc...@sacksteder.com> bug reports for MSVC7

* Peter Verveer <verv...@embl-heidelberg.de> improvement to memory
usage of MINPACK routines

* Mario Pernici <mario.pern...@mi.infn.it> bug fix for
gsl_combination_valid and new function gsl_permutation_memcpy,
doc fix for bessel functions, bug fix for gsl_sf_psi_1_int,
bug report for gsl_permutation_canonical_to_linear, linalg
QRPT bug reports and fixes, and many other corrections.

* Fabio Brugnara <brugn...@itc.it> provided a much-needed bug
fix for the conjugate gradient algorithm multidimensional
minimisers.

* Krzysztof Pachucki <k...@fuw.edu.pl> bug report for gsl_sf_hypergU_int

* Carsten Svaneborg <svane...@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> documentation bug report

* Liguo Song <liguo.s...@vanderbilt.edu> documentation bug report

* Carlo Ferrigno <ferri...@pa.iasf.cnr.it> bug report for CGS units

* Giulio Bottazzi <botta...@sssup.it> many useful bug reports

* Olaf Lenz <ol...@physik.uni-bielefeld.de> rng frwite/fread, bug reports

* Jamie Lokier <ja...@shareable.org> for testing

* Grant Lythe <gr...@maths.leeds.ac.uk> documentation bug report

* Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> documentation bug report

* Aaron Schweiger <aschw...@bu.edu> bug report for SVD/column balancing

* Carlo Ferrigno <ferri...@pa.iasf.cnr.it> bug report about const problems

* Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> documenation bug report for
gsl_ran_hypergeometric_pdf

* Bas Zoetekouw <b...@debian.org> documentation bug report

* Paul Sydney <syd...@maui.net> bug report and patch for min/brent.c

* Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodt...@mccammon.ucsd.edu> patch for sphere.c

* Neil Bushong <bush...@mh-4426b.ucsd.edu> documentation typo bug report

* Brad Bell <b...@apl.washington.edu> documentation bug report

* Andreas Schneider <1...@c07.de> bug report for R250

* Luigi Ballabio <luigi.balla...@fastwebnet.it> fix m4 quoting in gsl.m4

* Zbigniew Koza <zk...@ift.uni.wroc.pl> documentation bug fix for odes

* James Scott <j.sc...@runbox.com> fix for linalg tests on MSVC

* Rémi Butel <r.bu...@epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr> fixes for multimin overflow
conditions

* Andris Pavenis <pave...@latnet.lv> Makefile fix for EXEEXT

* Daniel Webb <li...@danielwebb.us> bug report for potential cspline
division by zero

* Ewald Stamp <st...@math.hu-berlin.de> bugfix for vector/swap_source.c

* Joerg Wensch <wen...@informatik.uni-halle.de>  LQ decompositions

* Jason Stover <jsto...@sdf.lonestar.org> patch for cdf/beta.c,
inverse cumulative distributions, discrete cumulative distributions

* Ralph Menikoff <r...@lanl.gov> bug report for gsl_sf_expint_scaled

* Yoshiki <ytsunes...@yahoo.co.jp> documentation bug report

* Nigel Lowry <nigel-lo...@ultra.eclipse.co.uk> documentation proofreading

* Giulio Bottazzi <botta...@sssup.it> cdf for exponential power
distribution, bug reports

* Tuomo Keskitalo <tuomo.keskit...@hut.fi> many improvements to ode-initval

* Britton Kerin <bke...@asf.alaska.edu> documentation bug reports

* Patricio Rojo <p...@astro.cornell.edu> patch for numerical
instability in interpolation integrate function

* Damir Herman <her...@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> improved accuracy of
histogram range calculations

* John Salmon <jsal...@thesalmons.org> bug report for gsl_cheb_eval_n_err

* Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> for bug reports and testing, and
maintaining the Debian package for GSL.

* Jari Häkkinen <j...@chiralcomp.com> for svd bug reports, rng bug reports

* Marco Canini <marco.can...@fastwebnet.it> patch for IXP2400 Xscale

* Ben Klemens <klem...@hss.caltech.edu> bug report for sorting vectors
with NANs

* Peter Brommer <p...@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de> bug report and patch
for Brent minimisation algorithm.

* Gabriel Withington <gabriel.withing...@umassmed.edu> typo in docs

* Stewart V. Wright <swright+...@physics.adelaide.edu.au> patch for missing 
spline functions

* Richard Mathar <mat...@strw.leidenuniv.nl> additional Debye
functions n=5,6, handle case x==1 in 2F1.

* Stefan Jahn <ste...@gruft.de>  bug fix for periodic cubic splines with n=3

* Yoram Burak <yora...@kitp.ucsb.edu> bug report for scaled bessel function 
In_scaled

* Mario Santos <mgrsan...@ist.utl.pt> bug report for spherical bessel function 

* Vincent Plagnol <vincent.plag...@normalesup.org> bug report for 
gsl_randist_binomial_pdf

* John Houck <ho...@space.mit.edu> bug report for gsl_sf_synchrotron_1

* Jochen Voss <v...@seehuhn.de> ziggurat gaussian generator

* John D Lamb <j.d.l...@btinternet.com> Marsaglia-Tsang gamma generator, bug 
reports

* Giulio Bottazzi <giulio.botta...@libero.it> improved exponential
power distribution and gsl_multifit_linear_est

* Charles Karney <ckar...@sarnoff.com> added Leva bounds to gaussian ratio 
method generator

* Torquil Sorenson <torq...@gmail.com> documentation bug fixes for FFTs

* Yajun Wang <yald...@cs.ust.hk> - bug report for multifit n<p

* Erik Schnetter <schnet...@cct.lsu.edu> - patch for Macos X on Intel

* Lowell Johnson <ld...@sio.midco.net> - implementation of mathieu functions

* Brian Gladman <b...@gladman.plus.com> - useful bug reports

* B. Lazarov <b...@mek.dtu.dk> - compilation bug report for randist

* Harald Moseby <harald.mos...@fnh.no> - special functions bug reports

* Neil Harvey <neilhar...@gmail.com> - bug report for beta pdf

* Felipe G. Nievinski <f.nievin...@unb.ca> - documentation bug report

* Daisuke TOMINAGA <tomin...@cbrc.jp> - Japanese translation of manual and 
numerous corrections

* Andoline Bucciolini <andoline_bucciol...@women-at-work.org> - documentation 
bug for BLAS

* Daniel Falster <dfals...@bio.mq.edu.au> bug report for fdist_Pinv

* Giancarlo Marra <giancarlo.ma...@bancaditalia.it> bug report for M_PI_4

* Alan Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> for sample implementation of
improved BFGS algorithm.

* Lionel Barnett <lionelb.nos...@googlemail.com> for pointing out an
error in the elliptic integrals

* Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw...@verizon.net> patch for laguerre polynomials

* Katrin Wolff <katrin_wo...@gmx.de> bug report for Lambert W function

* "Heikki Orsila <heikki.ors...@iki.fi>" cleaning up siman code

* Eugene Loh <eugene....@sun.com> bug report for gsl_log1p

* Richard Smith <richard.sm...@sun.com> bug report and suggestions for
correct use of isfinite

* Marco Lombardi <marco.lomba...@gmail.com> bug report for svd

* I J Wilson <i.j.wil...@newcastle.ac.uk> bug report for dirichlet
function

* Justin Lenzo <j-le...@northwestern.edu> bug reports for
vector/matrix tests.

* Sebastian Queißer <sebast...@queisser-net.de> bug report for
gsl_cdf_beta_Pinv

* Andries Brouwer <andries.brou...@cwi.nl> bug report for
underflow in symmetric eigenvalues

* Mingxi Wu <m...@cise.ufl.edu> bug report for multinomial pdf

* Chris Mihelich <umbric...@gmail.com> bug reports and suggestions for
gsl_ldexp and gsl_frexp

* Frank Reininghaus <frank7...@googlemail.com> complex polynomial
evaluation and ode improvements

* Jason Coy <funkd...@gmail.com> optimisation for dwt.c

* Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> bug reports

* Stijn van Dongen <s...@sanger.ac.uk> bug fix for overflow in
  gsl_cdf_hypergeometric_{P,Q}

*  Claude Dion <claude.d...@tp.umu.se> documentation bug reports

* Michael Kuklik <mkuk...@gmail.com> bug report for simplex

* Paul Accisano, bug report and fix for cyclic solver

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.m...@gmail.com> bug and patch for interp
  accelerator

* Lori A. Pritchett-Sheats bug report for vegas chisq.

* Frank Wang <frank.w...@validusre.bm> bug report for gsl_ran_gamma_knuth.

* Peter Johansson <troj...@gmail.com> fix for make install prefix=PREFIX

* Taneli Kalvas <taneli.kal...@jyu.fi> bug report for odes

* Marco Maggi <mrc....@gmail.com> bug fix for gsl_blas_drotm

* Mateus Araújo Santos - bug fix for LM set

* James Howse - quad_golden minimisation algorithm

* Marc JOURDAIN - polynomial derivatives function

* Andrew Steiner - for bug reports

* Ettl Martin - bug report, rk4 memory

* Yevgeniy Naumovich - bspline allocators fix

* Huan Wu - gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_invert

* Ralf Wildenhues - numerous proofreading corrections

* Thomas Tanner <tan...@gmx.de> - bug report for gsl_sf_beta_inc

* Sam Mason <s...@samason.me.uk> - bug fix for gsl_pow_int

* José Luis García Pallero <jgpall...@gmail.com> - error checking for GSL cblas

* Teemu Ikonen <tpiko...@gmail.com> patch for gsl_ran_chisq_pdf

* Evgeny Kurbatov <evgenykurba...@yandex.ru> - patch for error
  handling in interpolation routines

* Michel Kern <michel.k...@inria.fr> - fix for singular Jacobian in
  Newton solver

* Nikolay Simakov <nsima...@andrew.cmu.edu> - bug report for gsl_eigen_jacobi

* Jim Ward - numerous bug reports and useful suggestions

* Josh Neil & Curt Hash - patch for negative binomial

* Maximilian Treiber <maximilian.trei...@physik.lmu.de> - bug report for 
gsl_sf_lncosh

* Martin Landriau <landr...@mpe.mpg.de> bug report for 3j coupling

* Grigory I. Rubtsov <gri...@ms2.inr.ac.ru> - extend range of 3j

* Matthias Sitte <matthias.si...@gmail.com> - bug report and patch for
  failing complex matrix IO routines

* Raymond Rogers <raymond.roger...@gmail.com> - bug fixes for confluent
  hypergeometric functions