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janhaa
Aug12-07, 08:40 AM
Try to solve this integral:

I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\sqrt{x^4+1}-x^2}}{x^4+1}\,{\rm dx}

dextercioby
Aug12-07, 09:23 AM
Subbing x^2 =\sinh t will give you something like this

I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\coth t -1}}{\cosh t}{}dt

Feed it now to Mathematica. There's about 50% chances it will return a complicated expression in terms of elliptic integrals.

janhaa
Aug12-07, 02:41 PM
Nice substitution, I managed to solve it now.
Thanks

dextercioby
Aug12-07, 03:51 PM
Apparently the integral is expressible in terms of elementary functions.