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Re: Integration

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• Subject: [mg44424] Re: Integration
• From: akhmel at hotmail.com (Alex)
• Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 04:51:05 -0500 (EST)
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Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message news:<bofsj3$5ki$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Is the difficulty here merely one of time and space, or an incomplete 
> implementation in Mathematica?  After all, Risch's by-now old algorithm 
> determines whether a given elementary function has an elementary 
> antiderivative and, if there is one, finds it in finitely many steps.
> 

Should we as users of Mathematica demand from Wolfram either retract
his false statement or make Mathematica actually do the job?

Alex

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