26.2.9 problem Differential equations with Linear Coefficients. Exercise 8.9, page 69

Internal problem ID [6928]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section : Chapter 2. Special types of differential equations of the first kind. Lesson 8
Problem number : Differential equations with Linear Coefficients. Exercise 8.9, page 69
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:06:14 PM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class C`], _rational, [_Abel, `2nd type`, `class A`]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.081 (sec). Leaf size: 30

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

\[ y = \frac {\left (-x -1\right ) \operatorname {LambertW}\left (c_1 \left (x +2\right )\right )-x -2}{\operatorname {LambertW}\left (c_1 \left (x +2\right )\right )} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.084 (sec). Leaf size: 72

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

\[ \text {Solve}\left [\int _1^{-\frac {(-1)^{2/3} \left (\frac {3 (x+2)}{y(x)-1}+2\right )}{\sqrt [3]{2}}}\frac {2}{2 K[1]^3+3 \sqrt [3]{-2} K[1]+2}dK[1]=\frac {1}{9} (-2)^{2/3} \log (x+2)+c_1,y(x)\right ] \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.595 (sec). Leaf size: 19

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = - x + e^{C_{1} + W\left (\left (- x - 2\right ) e^{- C_{1}}\right )} - 1 \]