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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: value of an integral
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 05:42:48 EST
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In article <3@bgsuvax.UUCP> steiner@bgsuvax.UUCP (Ray Steiner) writes:
>> Note to net.math readers (if it applies to you read it, otherwise
>> no offense intended!):
>> 
>> I know I'm in for some scathing remarks that this is not mathematics,
>> (high school algebra: yes, calculus: maybe) in that there is no group
>> theory, no topology, and no set theory involved.  Well, those of us
>> in applied mathematics are already tired of comments of that sort,
>> so please don't bother :-).
>> 
>> Maybe what is needed is net.math.appld, and our pure mathematics
>> brethren wouldn't have to read such (from their perspective)
>> tom-foolery as this article.

I don't mind calculus questions or high school math questions per se.
I do mind when they get >10 solutions posted, mostly the same!  The
same problem plagues net.puzzle, for example.

I like both pure and applied mathematics.

>Apropos of this same article, does anyone out there know if
>the indefinite integral of e**x*sec(x) is expressible in terms
>of elementary functions?  I have been wrestling with this
>little teaser for 25 years without finding a solution!!

It isn't.  Sorry.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720