The integral of one over sqrt(x^2+1) dx

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Let us look at

\int {\frac{{dx}}{{\sqrt {{x^2} + 1} }}}  

Using the fact from the previous page we have that a=i, and thus that

\begin{gathered}   \int {\frac{{dx}}{{\sqrt {{x^2} - {a^2}} }}}  = \int {\frac{{dx}}{{\sqrt {{x^2} - {i^2}} }}}  \hfill \\   \quad  = \ln \left( {x + \sqrt {{x^2} - {i^2}} } \right) + C \hfill \\   \quad  = \ln \left( {x + \sqrt {{x^2} + 1} } \right) + C \hfill \\  \end{gathered}  

This is also called the arsinh(x) or sinh-1(x) ( see this page). A graph of the integrand vs. the integral can be seen below.

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