Weierstrass as a Special Case of the USM Framework

"The world's sneakiest substitution."  — Michael Spivak The classical Weierstrass substitution for integrals of the form \[\int R(\sin\omeg...

𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞!

I'm excited to share the latest development in what I initially called the "Exponential Substitution Method." Moving forward, this approach will be known as the Unified Substitution Method because it unifies several powerful techniques for tackling integrals, including:

𝟏. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Originally used to simplify integrals by expressing sine and cosine in terms of exponential functions, this technique is extended to handle irrational integrands.

𝟐. 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Traditionally used to transform rational expressions of trigonometric functions into purely rational ones, this is now extended and incorporated into my method to simplify irrational expressions as well.

𝟑. 𝐄𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: These classic substitutions, designed for certain irrational integrands, are also integrated into the Unified Substitution Method. Interestingly, I’ve found that the extended Weierstrass substitution often simplifies integrals into rational forms nearly identical to those obtained through Euler’s substitutions.

By unifying and extending these techniques, this method becomes a comprehensive tool capable of handling a wide variety of integrals, including some of the most challenging irrational ones.

This approach represents a significant step forward in simplifying integral calculus and demonstrates the deep interconnections between these classic methods. I’m excited to see how this can benefit students, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.

To stay tuned for more examples and demonstrations of this method, here is my blog post on it:

https://geometriadominicana.blogspot.com/2024/03/integration-using-some-euler-like.html?m=1

#math #calculus #integration #euler #weierstrass #new #method

A new integration technique via Euler-like identities

"Complexification formulas are great and it seems like this simplifies the right away." - Ninad Munshi Introduction While investigating a wa...

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Collaboration between #Tyndall institute, Université #Lille and #Weierstrass Institute Berlin.

Theoretical study of the impact of alloy disorder on carrier transport and recombination processes in deep UV (Al,Ga)N light emitters

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Today I gave my third talk in the VIG (Very Informal Group) series about Shioda's paper on #Weierstrass Transformations and #Cubic #Surfaces (1994). There are some lovely results in this paper.
@apocheir I remember trying to find the actual letter the whoever "Madame Schabelskoy" was, but I was unsuccessful. I am pretty sure it's originally due to #Weierstrass and #Kovalevskaya paraphrased it.
#Weierstrass zeta function w was called an integral of 2nd kind in #elliptic function theory; it is a log derivative of a theta function, so simple poles, with integer residues. decomposition of a (#meromorphic) elliptic function into pieces of '3 kinds' || as
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One can take a suitable branch of log(entire fe) that never hits 0, st this will also be a few (by #Weierstrass factorization theorem). Log hits every z except possibly one , which implies that the first function will hit any value other than 0 an infinite number of times.

Math’s Beautiful Monsters
http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/maths-beautiful-monsters-rp

Nice short article about mathematical objects deemed pathological at first but that turn out to be extremely fruitful.

#maths #history #Weierstrass

Math’s Beautiful Monsters - Issue 53: Monsters - Nautilus

Much like its creator, Karl Weierstrass’ monster came from nowhere. After four years at university spent drinking and fencing, Weierstrass…