I don't expect anyone to solve this for me, but my hope is that you can (at least) guide me a little. I'm a first year student so I don't have a lot of calculus knowledge and tend to struggle with integration concepts involving power series representations, trigonometric substitutions,...etc. I really don't think that I have enough background to solve the following, but I have the chance to earn myself $2,000 (from my uncle who's a math wizard to say the least) if I can successfully solve (showing all the necessary steps) the following indefinite integral (s):
s {[x^2]/[1 + sin(x)] dx}
I already discovered the answer at: http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp, but I have no clue what the induction steps are, or how my uncle could have solved this monster on his own. I would be so (...so,so,so...) grateful if someone can help me out here.
Thanks a lot
2006-06-26
09:29:50
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