>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas.Neuss@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
Nicolas> Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas.Neuss@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to evaluate the function
>>
>> f(c) := integrate (x*x/(c+x*x)*exp(-x*x), x, 0, c)
>>
>> Unfortunately, symbolic integration does not work (meaning that I
>> couldn't do it, and Maxima failed as well). Can Maxima do a numerical
>> integration? Has anyone used such a feature?
>>
>> Thanks, Nicolas.
Nicolas> Thank you, all. I had looked only in an old Maxima manual, where only
Nicolas> DCADR and not ROMBERG was listed. I have thrown it away now. Too
Nicolas> much differences to the new Maxima (very nice work, by the way)...
I have a version of QUADPACK converted to lisp that could probably be
hooked into maxima pretty easily. QUADPACK has a bunch of adaptive
integrators and should be able to handle the simple pole in the
integrand avobe.
Haven't actually tried to integrate it though.
Ray