Recent content by SpudsMcGinty

@SammyS: my apologies, you're absolutely right! Thanks for your help @voko: Perfect, thanks!

Thanks for your replies! @awkward: Yea the book is great. I really like his material on "the art of approximation" too, hopefully he'll publish that in book form too. Regarding your hint, I'm afraid my math skills are rustier than I thought! (One of the reasons I'm working through the...

Homework Statement I'm working through Mahajan's Street-fighting Mathematics for fun, and am a bit puzzled about the following problem: The Attempt at a Solution It's mostly the first part that's tripping me up. I could use the substitution tan\theta=x and solve both integrals...