42.1.18 problem 3.26

Internal problem ID [6840]
Book : Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Bender and Orszag. Springer October 29, 1999
Section : Chapter 3. APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. page 136
Problem number : 3.26
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 11:24:12 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 38

Order:=6; 
ode:=(x-1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1+\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {1}{24} x^{4}+\frac {1}{120} x^{5}\right ) y \left (0\right )+x y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 41

ode=(x-1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^4}{24}+\frac {x^3}{6}+\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right )+c_2 x \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.924 (sec). Leaf size: 27

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x - 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (\frac {x^{4}}{24} + \frac {x^{3}}{6} + \frac {x^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]