Re: Mathematica Question
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- Subject: [mg66373] Re: Mathematica Question
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 02:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Bharat Bhole schrieb: > Hello: > > Is there a way in Mathematica to check whether an algebraic expression is > positive or negative, and a way to specify conditions on the variables in > the expression? For example, is there a way to check whether x^2 is positive > for any real x? I want to check this for a complicated > expression...basically the sign of the second derivative of a function. > > Thank you very much for your help. > > Bharat. > > Hi Bharat, there are several ways: Reduce[x^2 > 0, x \[Element] Reals] --> x < 0 || x > 0 FullSimplify[%] --> x != 0 FullSimplify[x^2 > 0, x \[Element] Reals] --> x != 0 FullSimplify[ForAll[x, x \[Element] Reals, x^2 > 0]] --> False FullSimplify[ForAll[x, x \[Element] Reals, x^2 >= 0]] --> True hth, Peter