Re: [Bug-gsl] Contribution: Hermite polynomials, functions etc.

[Konrad]

Hi Rhys and all,

following up on the open issues for the Hermite polynomials and
functions, please find attached my draft for the documentation. The
introduction is a little longer than in most other chapters, this is on
purpose since I figured that it is easier for one of you to throw parts
of it out than to extend it. So feel free to shorten it, the only piece
of information I find noteworthy is the fact that the Hermite functions
are eigenfunctions of the Fourier transform. This makes them very useful
and is often forgotten.
Since I'm not very well versed in Texinfo, I couldn't get the greek
character psi on the index, so if somebody knows how to fix this, please
do, the corresponding line is commented right now.
Also, the attached file can be compiled on its own, but I've added
comments where the part relevant for the GSL-manual begins and ends.

Cheers,
Konrad



> 3) We'll need to add documentation for the new functions.  These will
> resemble content like doc/specfunc-airy.texi.  Much of the necessary
> content appears in your email and can be written once we've got a
> gsl_sf_hermite.h in hand from item 1.

specfunc-hermite.texi
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