Wednesday, October 21, 2015

calculus - How do I evaluate the following integral intinftyinftyesigma2x2/2;mathrmdx?

How do I evaluate the following integral exp(σ2x22)dx?


How is it even possible to find an antiderivative?



The integral is evaluated "silently" in a book leading to a theorem.


Using Wolfram Alpha (after trying to evaluate on my own) I get


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and this is not what I want, since at my level we've never worked with such a function.


Hoping someone can clarify.

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