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...