Re: Manually tell Mathematica how to evaluate integrals
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- From: Hui <e.schlemm at hotmail.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:33:09 -0500 (EST)
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Thank you DC. There is a typo in my original statement. I meant to suggest that
x PolyLog[n+1,Exp[x]] - PolyLog[n+2,Exp[x]
is the anti-derivative of the function
x PolyLog[n,Exp[x]].
That seems to be confirmed by differentiating the former expression.
Any ideas as to why Mathematica won't evaluate this integral, even in the explicit case of, say, n=4?
On Monday, November 26, 2012 4:40:54 AM UTC, DC wrote:
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> Simplify[D[x PolyLog[n + 1, Exp[x]] - x PolyLog[n + 2, Exp[x]], x],
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> On Sunday, 25 November 2012 10:10:17 UTC, Hui wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I would like to know if it possible to teach Mathematica this integral in such a way that it will also recognise and solve it in more complicated cases such as
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> > Integrate[(x+a) PolyLog[n,b Exp[c x]],x].
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> > Thank you very much, your assistance is much appreciated!
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