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7. Background information for those interested in the historical development (you
may skip this first paragraph and go straight to the question in the second para-
graph if you are not interested in the history): The Cavalieri's quadrature formula
gives an explicit solution to the integral
x" dx. For the case of the parabola (n = 2), it
was proven by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse in the 3rd cen-
tury BC in The Quadrature of the Parabola (written as a letter to his friend Dositheus).
More precisely, Archimedes was using the method of exhaustion to find the area inside the
parabola rather then the area under the graph. In the 11th century, Islamic mathematician
Ibn al-Haytham computed the integrals of cubes (n = 3) and quartics (n = 4) using the
method of mathematicial induction. In the 17th century, an Italian Jesuit mathematician
Bonaventura Cavalieri used the method of indivisibles and computed the cases for integers
n from 1 up to 9. The French lawyer/mathematician Pierre de Fermat had also obtained
the areas of parabolas and hyperbolas of any order. By using an ingenious trick, Fermat
was able to reduce the evaluation of the integral of general power to the sum of geometric
series. The trick, however, was not considered systematic nor explicit. In 1656, an En-
glish mathematician John Wallis published his work Arithmetica Infinitorum in which the
formula works for fractional and negative powers, although the case of the quadrature of
the hyperbola (n = -1) was then interpreted incorrectly.
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Question: Compute the integral |
x" dx in terms of a, assuming n is a positive inte-
ger. Without performing further integration, find
Vx dx in terms of a.
Transcribed Image Text:7. Background information for those interested in the historical development (you may skip this first paragraph and go straight to the question in the second para- graph if you are not interested in the history): The Cavalieri's quadrature formula gives an explicit solution to the integral x" dx. For the case of the parabola (n = 2), it was proven by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse in the 3rd cen- tury BC in The Quadrature of the Parabola (written as a letter to his friend Dositheus). More precisely, Archimedes was using the method of exhaustion to find the area inside the parabola rather then the area under the graph. In the 11th century, Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham computed the integrals of cubes (n = 3) and quartics (n = 4) using the method of mathematicial induction. In the 17th century, an Italian Jesuit mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri used the method of indivisibles and computed the cases for integers n from 1 up to 9. The French lawyer/mathematician Pierre de Fermat had also obtained the areas of parabolas and hyperbolas of any order. By using an ingenious trick, Fermat was able to reduce the evaluation of the integral of general power to the sum of geometric series. The trick, however, was not considered systematic nor explicit. In 1656, an En- glish mathematician John Wallis published his work Arithmetica Infinitorum in which the formula works for fractional and negative powers, although the case of the quadrature of the hyperbola (n = -1) was then interpreted incorrectly. Vā Question: Compute the integral | x" dx in terms of a, assuming n is a positive inte- ger. Without performing further integration, find Vx dx in terms of a.
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