54.7.126 problem 1741 (book 6.150)

Internal problem ID [12975]
Book : Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section : Chapter 6, non-linear second order
Problem number : 1741 (book 6.150)
Date solved : Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:55:31 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

\begin{align*} 2 y^{\prime \prime } y-3 {y^{\prime }}^{2}&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)*y(x)-3*diff(y(x),x)^2 = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= \frac {4}{\left (c_1 x +c_2 \right )^{2}} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.129 (sec). Leaf size: 21

ode=-3*D[y[x],x]^2 + 2*y[x]*D[y[x],{x,2}] == 0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {c_2}{(x+2 c_1){}^2}\\ y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(2*y(x)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 3*Derivative(y(x), x)**2,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

NotImplementedError : The given ODE -sqrt(6)*sqrt(y(x)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)))/3 + Derivative(y(x), x) cannot be solved by the factorable group method