29.9.18 problem 9, using elementary method

Internal problem ID [7388]
Book : Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section : Chapter 12, Series Solutions of Differential Equations. Section 1. Miscellaneous problems. page 564
Problem number : 9, using elementary method
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:30:12 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 16

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

\[ y = c_2 \,x^{2}+c_1 x -c_2 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.178 (sec). Leaf size: 79

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \sqrt {x^2+1} \exp \left (\int _1^x\frac {K[1]+2 i}{K[1]^2+1}dK[1]\right ) \left (c_2 \int _1^x\exp \left (-2 \int _1^{K[2]}\frac {K[1]+2 i}{K[1]^2+1}dK[1]\right )dK[2]+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

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

False