Hi!

On Aug 19, 3:53 pm, rjf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Consider
> integrate(f(x,y),x*y).
>
> do you compute   d(x*y)  as x*dy+y*dx and compute    integrate(f(x)
> *x,y) + integrate(f(x)*y,x)?
>
> Here's another interpretation of variable = x^2...
>
> integrate(f(x),x^2)  =  integrate(integrate(f(x),x),x).
> that is, an iterated integral.  This is like
>
> (d ^2 f(x))/dx^2   notation for derivatives, where the derivative is
> definitely NOT with respect to x^2.

But would you agree that my suggestion
  f.integral(x[,g])  --- f function, x variable, g function (optional,
default g(x)=x)
makes sense, which should return the integral (f * dg/dx) dx ?

I think that has no ambiguity in it (even if f or g depends on further
variables), and it would just mean to extend Sage's .integral() method
so that Maxima is used in a more clever way.

Cheers,
Simon

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