Internal problem ID [2552]
Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode, second edition,
2000
Section: 1.4, page 36
Problem number: 9.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [_separable]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }-\frac {x \left (-1+y^{2}\right )}{2 \left (x -2\right ) \left (x -1\right )}=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 21
dsolve(diff(y(x),x)=(x*( y(x)^2-1))/(2*(x-2)*(x-1)),y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = -\tanh \left (\ln \left (-2+x \right )-\frac {\ln \left (x -1\right )}{2}+\frac {c_{1}}{2}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.942 (sec). Leaf size: 51
DSolve[y'[x]==(x*( y[x]^2-1))/(2*(x-2)*(x-1)),y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\frac {x+e^{2 c_1} (x-2)^2-1}{-x+e^{2 c_1} (x-2)^2+1} y(x)\to -1 y(x)\to 1 \end{align*}