Talk:Symbolic integration
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A lot of the information in this article is covered in antiderivative. I think it should either be merged or atleast cleaned up, as the current article is not in formal encyclopedic tone and has some grammatical errors. RyanC. 08:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I disagree with the merge. This article is on symbolic integration in the field of computers, not the general mathematical question of fionding an asntiderivative. RJFJR 17:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed the expand and clean-up tags. The article looks good to me in it's current form. The deletion of the lengthy paragraph was a good move in my opinion; that information is covered in antiderivative. RyanC. 05:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Moved from article space[edit]
- (We say usually because, while the lion's share of functions of a single variable can be broken down into combinations of approximately twenty standard forms, there are functions with non-numeric exponents--x to the x power, say--that must be attacked via the implicit differentiation approach that is not necessarily straightforward to perform by digital computer.)
This is too long and detailed. Just say usually. RJFJR 17:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Disparity in coverage[edit]
At the moment, the coverage of symbolic integration in Integral is more extensive, even though that article designates Symbolic integration as the 'main article' and links here. Arcfrk 17:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, for some reason this article covers only finding an antiderivative. Symbolic integration also covers definite integration, which may or may not involve finding an antiderivative. 140.177.205.222 (talk) 17:58, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Vandalization of credit for symbolic integration based on special functions[edit]
Twice I have witnessed people claim this method of symbolic integration was pioneered by computer algebra systems other than Maple. Developers of the Maple system showed the method at a high profile conference at MIT as indicated in the reference. Anyone claiming that this method was invented by another system should provide proof with an earlier reference. TonyMath (talk) 23:14, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
- "Vandalization" is not an acceptable term. This being said, I apologize for a confusion between definite and indefinite integration. This confusion was probably caused by the fact that the paragraph devoted to Risch was too short for a due weight, although it was mentioned twice in the paragraph on definite integration. I hope I have correctly corrected all of this by my recent edit. D.Lazard (talk) 10:24, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Should SAINT(Symbolic Automatic INTegrator) program be mentioned here?[edit]
The SAINT(Symbolic Automatic INTegrator) program developed by James Slagle and Marvin Minsky was the first expert system that is a heuristic program for solving symbolic integration problems. Is it relevant to mention it as part of the history of symbolic integration in computer science? Alacris (talk) 14:45, 20 November 2023 (UTC)