Rational function integration
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg14409] Rational function integration
- From: lebigot at ens.fr (Eric Le Bigot)
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:10:13 -0400
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello,
To my immense surprise, I've not been able to obtain from Mathematica
the result of *very simple integrations* of rational functions.
Furthermore, there seem to be some inconsistencies between different
results given by Mathematica...
Does anybody know how to make Mathematica compute those integrals of
rational functions ? (the result is not that much interesting in
itself, but the method is: the expressions I actually want to compute
are simply some more complicated rational functions).
EOL, who loves Mathematica, even though he is a bit disappointed this
time...
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Eric-Olivier Le Bigot (EOL)
lebigot at lpan.jussieu.fr