On Friday, July 27, 2012 12:25:01 PM UTC-7, MartinX wrote:
>
> I have had a go at implementing trac #3401, symbolic Li, and would like to 
> override the behaviour of integrate(), but I can't see how to do it.   We 
> have the  _derivative_  method in BuiltinFunction to define the derivative 
> of a function but no equivalent _integrate_ method.  Is there reason why 
> this is so? 


It may be related to the fact that derivatives for nearly all special 
functions of physics (Like Li) can be listed, one per function,
 on a few pages of a reference book.  Yet integral tables are hundreds of 
pages long, and even then, they are incomplete.

RJF

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