Some Gaussian Integrals
Requires a Wolfram Notebook System
Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.
The well-known Gaussian integral can be evaluated in closed form, even though there is no elementary function equal to the indefinite integral . More generally, integrals of the form can be evaluated for positive integers [1]. In this Demonstration, we perform numerical integrations for , with and . The results are then represented as areas under a curve (shown in red).
Contributed by: Casimir Kothari (January 2016)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
Snapshots
Details
Reference
[1] E. W. Weisstein, "Gaussian Integral," Wolfram MathWorld. (Jan 25, 2016) mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianIntegral.html (Wolfram MathWorld).
Permanent Citation
"Some Gaussian Integrals"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SomeGaussianIntegrals/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: January 26 2016