Integration of the reciprocal of the natural logarithm

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How do I start to evaluate this integral?

[tex]\int\frac{1}{\ln x}-\frac{1}{(\ln x)^2} dx[/tex]

I tried subbing [itex]u=\ln x[/itex] but I'm getting no where...

The answer is

[tex]\frac{x}{\ln x}+C[/itex]<br /> <br /> If I differentiate the answer, I get the integral easily, but the reverse... I'm having trouble figuring out how do it.[/tex]
 
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hi kudoushinichi88! :smile:
kudoushinichi88 said:
I tried subbing [itex]u=\ln x[/itex] but I'm getting no where...

your substitution should have presented you with an easy integration by parts

but anyway you can do integration by parts on ∫ 1/(lnx)2 dx

simply by first multiplying top and bottom by x: ∫ x/x(lnx)2 dx :wink: