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Remarkably, there isn’t a way to solve most integrals symbolically. We say that the set of “elementary functions”, i.e. ordinary looking symbolic functions, is not closed under integration. Even if you try to add special functions in you cannot feasibly make it closed under integration. I’ll try to write something more detailed later but in the meantime you should look up Liouville’s theorem and non-elementary antiderivatives.

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