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- From: steiner@andy.bgsu.edu (Ray Steiner)
- Subject: Re: Evaluation of an integral
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- Keywords: exponential
- Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:49:56 GMT
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- There was an article about expressing integrals in terms of
- elementary functions in the American Mathematical Monthly
- (November, 1972). It dealt with a kind of differential
- Galois theory for solving problems of this sort.
- In this article one can find a proof that the integral
- of exp(x)/x is not elementary. To get the integral of
- exp(exp(x) simply let u= exp(x), x= ln(u), dx= du/u. Then
- the integral of exp(exp(x))= integral of exp(u)/u and thus
- is not elementary either.
- Ray Steiner
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