Mathematica is not very clever
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg53022] Mathematica is not very clever
- From: Karl_boehme_9 at msn.com (Klaus G)
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:34:42 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mathematica refuses to compute the following integral:
Integrate [ArcTan[Sqrt[x^2 + 2]]/((x^2 + 1)*Sqrt[x^2 + 2]), {x, 0, 1}]
Why is that?
The correct result is 5*Pi^2 / 96, which can be proved.
Klaus G.