\documentclass[a3paper]{article} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{color} \begin{document} \title{Integrals Out Of The Box} \author{Amit Yaron} \date{July 2019} \maketitle \section{Introduction} If you know how to integrate and elementary function, it is probably because you have derived a function and got the integrand as a result. For other functions you may need to use methods such as integration by substitution or integration by parts or use other tricks. One trick used for the integration of $\csc{x}$ is multiplying the numerator and denominator by the same factor. In this document I will show you how to find that factor. \section{Finding the Useful Function and Integrating by Substitution} In this section I will define a function $f(x)$ such that $f'(x) = -(\csc x) f(x)$ What do the function $\csc$ and $\cot$ have in common? They have forms in which $\sin$ is the denominator, and when you derive such function, you square the denominator. Here, the denominator is $\sin x$, and sqaring it means multiplying by $\csc x$ Let us derive $\csc x$ and $\cot x$: \begin{align} \frac{d}{dx}\csc x = \frac{d}{dx}\frac{1}{\sin x}=-\frac{\cos x}{\sin^2 x} = -(\cot x)(\csc x)\\ \frac{d}{dx}\cot x=\frac{d}{dx}\frac{\cos x}{\sin x} = \frac{-\sin^2 x - \cos^2 x}{\sin^2 x}=-\frac{1}{\sin^2 x} = -\csc^2 x \end{align} Now, if we define $f(x)=\cot(x) + \csc(x)$, the from (1) and (2): \begin{align} \noindent f'(x) = -\csc^2 x - (\csc x)(\cot x) = - (\csc x)(\csc x + \cot x) = -(\csc x)f(x)\Rightarrow \nonumber \\ \Rightarrow \csc x = -\frac{f'(x)}{f(x)}\Rightarrow \int \csc x dx = -\int\frac{f'(x)}{f(x)}dx= -\ln|f(x)|+C =\nonumber\\= \color{red}-\ln|\csc x + \cot x| + C \nonumber \end{align} \end{document}