2.24.49 Problem 77

2.24.49.1 Maple
2.24.49.2 Mathematica
2.24.49.3 Sympy

Internal problem ID [13613]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 1, section 1.3. Abel Equations of the Second Kind. subsection 1.3.3-2.
Problem number : 77
Date solved : Friday, December 19, 2025 at 08:41:56 AM
CAS classification : [[_Abel, `2nd type`, `class A`]]

\begin{align*} y y^{\prime }&=\left (2 \ln \left (x \right )+a +1\right ) y+x \left (-\ln \left (x \right )^{2}-a \ln \left (x \right )+b \right ) \\ \end{align*}
Unknown ode type.
2.24.49.1 Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 163
ode:=y(x)*diff(y(x),x) = (2*ln(x)+a+1)*y(x)+x*(-ln(x)^2-a*ln(x)+b); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = \frac {x \left (-\tanh \left (\frac {\operatorname {RootOf}\left ({\mathrm e}^{-\frac {2 \,\operatorname {arctanh}\left (\frac {2 \textit {\_a} -a}{\sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}\right )}{\sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}} \tanh \left (\frac {\textit {\_Z} \sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}{2}\right ) \sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}-\sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}\, \tanh \left (\frac {\textit {\_Z} \sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}{2}\right ) {\mathrm e}^{\textit {\_Z}}+2 \ln \left (x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{\textit {\_Z}}-{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {2 \,\operatorname {arctanh}\left (\frac {2 \textit {\_a} -a}{\sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}\right )}{\sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}} a +{\mathrm e}^{\textit {\_Z}} a +2 c_1 \right ) \sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}}{2}\right ) \sqrt {a^{2}+4 b}+2 \ln \left (x \right )+a \right )}{2} \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
trying 1st order linear 
trying Bernoulli 
trying separable 
trying inverse linear 
trying homogeneous types: 
trying Chini 
differential order: 1; looking for linear symmetries 
trying exact 
trying Abel 
Looking for potential symmetries 
found: 2 potential symmetries. Proceeding with integration step 
<- Abel successful
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right ) \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )=\left (2 \ln \left (x \right )+a +1\right ) y \left (x \right )+x \left (-\ln \left (x \right )^{2}-a \ln \left (x \right )+b \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=\frac {\left (2 \ln \left (x \right )+a +1\right ) y \left (x \right )+x \left (-\ln \left (x \right )^{2}-a \ln \left (x \right )+b \right )}{y \left (x \right )} \end {array} \]
2.24.49.2 Mathematica
ode=y[x]*D[y[x],x]==(2*Log[x]+a+1)*y[x]+x*( -(Log[x])^2-a*Log[x]+b); 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

Not solved

2.24.49.3 Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
b = symbols("b") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-x*(-a*log(x) + b - log(x)**2) - (a + 2*log(x) + 1)*y(x) + y(x)*Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
Timed Out
 
Python version: 3.12.3 (main, Aug 14 2025, 17:47:21) [GCC 13.3.0] 
Sympy version 1.14.0