FLINT (Fast Library for Number Theory)

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/flint-devel

Overview

FLINT is a C library in support of computations in number theory. It's also a
research project into algorithms in number theory. FLINT consists mainly of fast
scalar and polynomial arithmetic, factorization and linear algebra over many
basic rings (integers, rationals, reals, finite fields, number fields, p-adics).
It includes some higher-level functionality for algebraic and analytic number
theory.

FLINT 2, released in 2011 was a complete rewrite of FLINT 1.x from scratch.
FLINT 3, released in 2023, incorporates the Arb,
Antic,
Calcium and
Generic-Rings libraries,
formerly developed separately.

Documentation

For FLINT's online documentation, see https://flintlib.org/doc/.

Building from source

This example assumes that GMP, MPFR
and the GNU build system
are already installed. To install them on a Ubuntu system, write

apt install libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev make autoconf libtool-bin

possibly with super-user privileges.

To download, bootstrap, configure and build everything, write

git clone https://github.com/flintlib/flint.git && cd flint
./bootstrap.sh
./configure                        # ./configure --help for more options
make
make check                         # optional
make install                       # optional
make examples                      # optional
cd doc && make html && cd ..       # optional: documentation

See FLINT's documentation for further instructions on how to build FLINT.

Authors

FLINT was started in 2007 by
David Harvey and
William Hart. Maintenance was later
taken over solely by William Hart who remained in charge of the project
until 2022. A large number of authors have contributed to FLINT over the years;
for a complete list, see https://flintlib.org/authors.html or the AUTHORS file.

The current maintainers are: