A warning about symbolic integration

Victor H. Moll; Dennis S. Bernstein

Vol. 29 (2019)

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A warning about symbolic integration

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Victor H. Moll,
Dennis S. Bernstein

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Victor H. Moll
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118

Dennis S. Bernstein
Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

Published 2024-09-04

Keywords

Symbolic integration,
digamma function.

Abstract

An example of an integral whose symbolic evaluation is given incorrectly in Mathematica 9.0 is provided. An analytic derivation of the correct value is presented.

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