How can I do this integration using only calculus?
(not laplace transforms or complex analysis)
∫+∞−∞sin(x)xdx
I searched for solutions not involving laplace transforms or complex analysis but I could not find.
Answer
Putting rigor aside, we may do like this:
∫∞−∞sinxxdx=2∫∞0sinxxdx=2∫∞0sinx(∫∞0e−xtdt)dx=2∫∞0∫∞0sinxe−txdxdt=2∫∞0dtt2+1=∫2⋅π2=π.
The defects of this approach are as follows:
- Interchanging the order of two integral needs justification, and in fact this is the hardest step in this proof. (There are several ways to resolve this problem, though not easy.)
- It is nothing but a disguise of Laplace transform method. So this calculation contains no new information on the integral.
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