IMSL (International Mathematics and Statistics Library) is a commercial collection of

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functionality that are implemented in the computer

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s C,

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, C#.NET, and Fortran. A Python interface is also available. The IMSL Libraries were developed by Visual Numerics, which was acquired in 2009 by Rogue Wave Software, which was acquired in 2019 by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer

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Version history

The first IMSL Library for the Fortran language was released in 1970, followed by a C-language version originally called C/Base in 1991, a Java-language version in 2002 and the C#-language version in 2004. Several recent product releases have involved making IMSL Library functions available from Python. These releases are Python wrappers to IMSL C Library functions (PyIMSL wrappers) and PyIMSL Studio, a prototyping and production application development environment based on Python and the IMSL C Library. The PyIMSL wrappers were first released in August 2008. PyIMSL Studio was introduced in February 2009. PyIMSL Studio is available for download at no charge for non-commercial use or for commercial evaluation. Current versions: *IMSL C Library V 8.0 – November 2011 *IMSL C# Library V 6.5.2 – November 2015 (end of life announced as end of 2020) *IMSL Fortran Library V 7.0 – October 2010 *PyIMSL Studio V 1.5 – August 2009 *PyIMSL wrappers V 1.5 – August 2009 *JMSL Library V 6.1 – August 2010

Platform availability

The IMSL Numerical Libraries are supported on various operating systems, hardware and compilers. *Operating system support includes

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and Microsoft Windows *Hardware support includes AMD,

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, HP, IBM, NEC, SGI and

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support includes Absoft, GCC,

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External links

Rogue Wave Software's IMSL Libraries page
Fortran libraries Numerical libraries

Version history

Platform availability

See also

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