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by Animats
3811 days ago
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You mean integration? That's much harder, but has been done automatically. Symbolic differentiation is easy, because you can just keep blindly applying a set of rewrite rules until none of them apply. That process converges on a unique result. Symbolic integration doesn't converge in that way. More strategy is required, and you're not guaranteed a closed form solution. Mathematica has a good symbolic integrator. |
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However, if a closed-form solution exists which can be expressed in terms of the operations + - * / exp log, then it is guaranteed to be found.