janhaa Messages 96 Reaction score 4 Thread starter Aug 12, 2007 #1 Try to solve this integral: [tex]I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\sqrt{x^4+1}-x^2}}{x^4+1}\,{\rm dx}[/tex]
dextercioby Science Advisor Insights Author Messages 13,419 Reaction score 4,227 Aug 12, 2007 #2 Subbing [itex]x^2 =\sinh t[/itex] will give you something like this [tex]I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\coth t -1}}{\cosh t}{}dt[/tex] Feed it now to Mathematica. There's about 50% chances it will return a complicated expression in terms of elliptic integrals.
Subbing [itex]x^2 =\sinh t[/itex] will give you something like this [tex]I=\int \frac{\sqrt{\coth t -1}}{\cosh t}{}dt[/tex] Feed it now to Mathematica. There's about 50% chances it will return a complicated expression in terms of elliptic integrals.
janhaa Messages 96 Reaction score 4 Aug 12, 2007 #3 Nice substitution, I managed to solve it now. Thanks
dextercioby Science Advisor Insights Author Messages 13,419 Reaction score 4,227 Aug 12, 2007 #4 Apparently the integral is expressible in terms of elementary functions.