Solving Double Integral with Polar Coordinates

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Hi all.

Suppose that we want to compute the following indefinite integral:

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The correct solution by Mathematica:

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Now here is the (apparently) incorrect solution by using polar coordinates:
\iint\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}dxdy=\iint\frac{1}{r}rdrd\theta=(r+c_1)(\theta+c_2)
If c1=c2=0, then one solution is:
r\theta=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\tan^{-1}\left ( \frac{y}{x} \right )
But it isn't:

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What's wrong with this solution?

Thanks in advance.
 

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## \iint\frac{1}{r}rdrd\theta ## looks good to me but that would just be ## \iint drd\theta ## with ## 0<r<\infty ## and ## 0<\theta<2\pi ## which is ## \infty ##. I was already worried about that when I saw the pole at the origin but apparently you can fix it by chopping the radius of interest.
 

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