Re: Mathematica is not very clever
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- Subject: [mg53045] Re: [mg53022] Mathematica is not very clever
- From: Clifford Martin <camartin at snet.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:19:27 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
If you use NIntegrate (as your answer is numerical)
you get the answer you were looking for, at least in
5.01.
Cliff
--- Klaus G <Karl_boehme_9 at msn.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>