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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: algo. determining closed form integral from c.f. function
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- In article <israel.713747592@unixg.ubc.ca> israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel) writes:
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- >AUTHOR: Davenport, James Harold, 1953-
- >TITLE: On the integration of algebraic functions / James Harold
- > Davenport. --
- >CALL NO: QA 341 D33 1981
- >PUBLISHED: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1981.
- >DESCRIPTION: 197 p. ; 25 cm. -- Bibliography: p. [186]-197.
- >SERIES: Lecture notes in computer science ; 102
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- Following are some other references that I collected when I asked this
- question some time ago:
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- <Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 11:20:48 -0500
- <From: Bruce E Litow <litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
- <
- <Indeed, not so elementary. Do the names Abel, Galois and Liouville mean
- <anything? A good survey is in "Computer Algebra", by Davenport, Siret
- <and Tournier, Academic Press, 1988
- <
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- <Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 22:44:04 -0400
- <From: tga@math.appstate.edu (Terry Anderson)
- <
- < The book "DEs with Applications and Historical Notes" by George F.
- <Simmons (2nd edition, McGraw Hill) contains a note on Joseph Liouville
- <(1809-1882), who studied the question of integration in finite terms.
- <
- < References given are:
- <
- <D. G. Mead, "Integration," American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 68, pp.
- <152-156 (1961). (QA 1 .A515)
- <
- <G. H. Hardy, The Integration of Functions of a Single Variable,
- <Cambridge Univ ersity Press, London, 1916.
- <
- <J. F. Ritt, Integration in Finite Terms, Columbia University Press,
- <New York, 1948. (QA 308 .R5)
- <
- <Simmons' book also has extensive historical notes on Newton, Gauss, and
- <Euler as well as short notes on Fermat, the Bernoulli family, Riemann,
- <Laplace, Abel, Poincare', and others. More recent references on the
- <solution of DEs in cl osed form are given in
- <
- <"Computer Algebra: Past and Future," by B. F. Caviness, Journal of
- <Symbolic Computation (1986), 217-236 (see pp. 225-6, in particular).
- <
- <J. J. Kovacic, "An Algorithm for solving 2nd order linear homogeneous
- <DEs," manuscript (1979). Also in J. Symbolic Computation 2, (1986),
- <3-43.
- <
- <M. F. Singer, "Functions satisfying elementary relations,"
- <Transactions of the AMS 227 (1977), 185-206.
- <
- <M. F. Singer, "Liouvillian solutions of nth order homogeneous linear
- <DEs," Amer. J. Math. 103 (1981), 661-682.
- <
- <M. F. Singer, B. D. Saunders, and B. F. Caviness, "An extension of
- <Liouville's theorem on integration in finite terms," SIAM J. Comput.
- <14 (1985), 966-990.
- <
- <B. D. Saunders, "An implementation of Kovacic's algorithm for solving
- <second order linear homogeneous DEs," in Proc. 1981 ACM Symp. on
- <Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (editor P. S. Wang), pp. 105-108.
- <
- <R. H. Risch - several papers on integration in finite terms.
- <
- <M. Rosenlicht, "On Liouville's theory of elementary functions,"
- <Pacific J. Math. 65 (1976), 485-492.
- <
- <B. W. Char, "Using Lie transformation groups to find closed form
- <solutions to first order ordinary differential equations," in Proc.
- <1981 ACM Symp. on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (editor P. S.
- <Wang), pp. 44-50.
- <
- <M. J. Prelle and M. F. Singer, "Elementary first integrals of DEs,"
- <Trans. AMS 279 (1983), 215-229. Kovacic's algorithm has been
- <implemented in MACSYMA and MAPLE.
- <
- <See Saunders above for MACSYMA and the following for MAPLE.
- <
- <B. W. Char, G. J. Fee, K. O. Geddes, G. H. Gonnet, and M. B. Monagan,
- <"A tutorial introduction to MAPLE," J. Symbolic Computation 2 (1986),
- <179-200.
- <
- <C. Smith, "A discussion and implementation of Kovacic's algorithm for
- <ODEs," University of Waterloo Computer Science Dept. Research Report
- <CS-84-35 (1984).
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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