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- From: polani@Informatik.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Daniel Polani)
- Subject: algo. determining closed form integral from c.f. function
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- Followup-To: Goat Puzzle
- Sender: polani@Informatik (Daniel Polani)
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- Organization: Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet
- References: <92214.131046C31801MC@wuvmd.wustl.edu> <BsDzrq.521@ecf.toronto.edu> <1992Aug3.042506.8089@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Aug3.053656.6431@galois.mit.edu> <4699@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:15:35 GMT
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- In article <4699@balrog.ctron.com>, wilson@ctron.com (David Wilson) writes:
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- It occurs to me that there is an algorithm for determining if a closed-form
- function has a closed-form integral. Would a varition of this algorithm
- apply to the grazing goat equation?
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- An algorithm which was said to do this, I have been told, has been devised by
- Risch (sorry, I cannot be more precise) based on an idea of Liouville from the
- last century. That's all I know.
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- Does anybody know the general idea used by this (or a similar) algorithm ?
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- Daniel Polani - polani@informatik.mathematik.uni-mainz.de
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