Overview
- Features state-of-the-art developments of new integral identities and their relation with special functions
- Explores expert techniques of the use of Mathematica to develop unknown formulas in practical forms
- Can serve as a reference for undergraduate research in physics, engineering, and other fields in science
Part of the book series: STEAM-H: Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics & Health (STEAM)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops integral identities, mostly involving multidimensional functions and infinite limits of integration, whose evaluations are intractable by common means. It exposes a methodology based on the multivariate power substitution and its variants, assisted by the software tool Mathematica. The approaches introduced comprise the generalized method of exhaustion, the multivariate power substitution and its variants, and the use of permutation symmetry to evaluate definite integrals, which are very important both in their own right, and as necessary intermediate steps towards more involved computation.
A key tenet is that such approaches work best when applied to integrals having certain characteristics as a starting point. Most integrals, if used as a starting point, will lead to no result at all, or will lead to a known result. However, there is a special class of integrals (i.e., innovative integrals) which, if used as a starting point for such approaches, willlead to new and useful results, and can also enable the reader to generate many other new results that are not in the book.The reader will find a myriad of novel approaches for evaluating integrals, with a focus on tools such as Mathematica as a means of obtaining useful results, and also checking whether they are already known. Results presented involve the gamma function, the hypergeometric functions, the complementary error function, the exponential integral function, the Riemann zeta function, and others that will be introduced as they arise. The book concludes with selected engineering applications, e.g., involving wave propagation, antenna theory, non-Gaussian and weighted Gaussian distributions, and other areas.
The intended audience comprises junior and senior sciences majors planning to continue in the pure and applied sciences at the graduate level, graduate students in mathematics and the sciences, and junior and established researchers in mathematicalphysics, engineering, and mathematics. Indeed, the pedagogical inclination of the exposition will have students work out, understand, and efficiently use multidimensional integrals from first principles.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Bourama Toni is a Full Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA; and Founder and Editor of the Springer-published STEAM-H series, with truly an interdisciplinary profile. Dr. Toni's research interests are primarily in Differential and Nonlinear Analysis and related topics to include Dynamical Systems, Non-Archimedean Analysis, Game Theory, Feedback Loops Analysis, and their applications to biosciences, behavioral sciences and naval engineering, with an excellent track-record of quality published research papers including contributed volumes with Springer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovative Integrals and Their Applications I
Authors: Anthony A. Ruffa, Bourama Toni
Series Title: STEAM-H: Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics & Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17871-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17870-2Published: 15 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17873-3Published: 16 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17871-9Published: 14 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2520-193X
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1948
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 319
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Special Functions, Integral Equations, Field Theory and Polynomials, Integral Transforms, Operational Calculus