sinus cardinal functions are his.
      </p>
<p>
        John Maddock started this library, the beta, gamma, erf, polynomial, and
        factorial functions are his, as is the "Toolkit" section, and many
        of the statistical distributions.
      </p>
<p>
        Paul A. Bristow threw down the challenge in <a href="http://www2.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2004/n1668.pdf" target="_top">A
        Proposal to add Mathematical Functions for Statistics to the C++ Standard
        Library</a> to 