Credits
=========

Primary development and maintence:

* `Marc Culler <http://www.math.uic.edu/~culler>`_ 
* `Nathan Dunfield <http://dunfield.info>`_
* `Jeff Weeks <http://www.geometrygames.org>`_

Additional contributions:

* Matthias Goerner, `Ptolemy module
  <http://www.unhyperbolic.org/ptolemy.html>`_ and `verification
  module <verify.html>`_.

* Mark Bell, Tracy Hall, Saul Schleimer, `Twister <http://bitbucket.org//Mark_Bell/twister/>`_.

* Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite, manifold and link censuses.

* Abhijit Champanerkar and Ilya Kofman, knot censuses.  

* Robert Lipschitz and Jennet Dickinson, improvements to Spherogram.

* Malik Obeidin, link simplification code. 

* `PARI library <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/>`_.  

*  `QD quad-double library
   <http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/>`_.

* Others, please let Marc or Nathan know if we've forgotten you. 

Citing SnapPy
------------------------

Please cite as: 

M. Culler, N. M. Dunfield, and J. R. Weeks, SnapPy, a computer program
for studying the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, http://snappy.computop.org  

or in BibTeX format ::

   @misc{SnapPy,
        author={Culler, Marc and Dunfield, Nathan M. and Weeks, Jeffrey R.},
        title={Snap{P}y, a computer program for studying the topology of $3$-manifolds},
        howpublished={Available at \url{http://snappy.computop.org} (DD/MM/YYYY)},
   }

or as an AMSRef::

  \bib{SnapPy}{misc}{
       author={Culler, Marc},
       author={Dunfield, Nathan M.},
       author={Weeks, Jeffrey R.},
       title={Snap{P}y, a computer program for studying the topology of $3$-manifolds},
       note={Available at \url{http://snappy.computop.org} (DD/MM/YYYY)}
  }

where DD/MM/YYYY should be replaced by the date when you downloaded your
copy of SnapPy.
