Advanced integration techniques

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Hello,
In quantum mechanics I often come across with some very complicated integrals which I need to calculate in an analytic methods (For ex. symmetric and antisymmetric functions , Gaussians ,etc.)
Do you know where I can find a summery of those techniques?
thanks
 
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Gaussian functions multiplied by powers of x are usually solved by integration by parts. Also, any self-respecting physicist knows that:

[itex] \int^{\infty}_{-\infty} e^{-x^{2}} \, dx = \sqrt{\pi}[/itex]

*This is as hard to derive as it appears. Even wikipedia has it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral

For more details, could you please provide some examples of said integrals?
 
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Abramowitz, Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.