23.3.347 problem 350

Internal problem ID [6061]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 3. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS LINEAR AND OF SECOND ORDER, page 311
Problem number : 350
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 02:20:46 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\begin{align*} y-x y^{\prime }+\left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 20

ode:=y(x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+(-x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_1 x +c_2 \sqrt {x -1}\, \sqrt {x +1} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.054 (sec). Leaf size: 63

ode=y[x] - x*D[y[x],x] + (1 - x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}] == 0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 \cosh \left (\frac {\sqrt {1-x^2} \arcsin (x)}{\sqrt {x^2-1}}\right )+i c_2 \sinh \left (\frac {\sqrt {1-x^2} \arcsin (x)}{\sqrt {x^2-1}}\right ) \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (1 - x**2)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

False