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Ahmed Integral doesn't evaluate

Posted 1 year ago

Why doesn't Mathematica evaluate the well-known Ahmed integral? $$ \int_0^1 \frac{\tan ^{-1}\left(\sqrt{x^2+2}\right)}{\left(x^2+1\right) \sqrt{x^2+2}} \, dx $$

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POSTED BY: Mariusz Iwaniuk

Mathematica did it this way:

Posted 1 year ago

Looking at https://mathworld.wolfram.com/AhmedsIntegral.html it seems that Mathematica evaluates the generic integrals but not to the same results from the article.

POSTED BY: Sorin Suciu

I will venture the obvious reason, that it does not know how to do this integral.

POSTED BY: Daniel Lichtblau
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