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The Mathematical ExplorerTM (2001)

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FunctionExpand

  • FunctionExpand[ expr ] tries to expand out special and certain other functions in expr, when possible reducing compound arguments to simpler ones.
  • FunctionExpand[ expr , assum ] expands using assumptions.
  • FunctionExpand uses a large collection of rules.
  • FunctionExpand applies to certain trigonometric functions as well as special functions.
  • FunctionExpand is automatically called by FullSimplify.
  • Assumptions in FunctionExpand can be specified as in Simplify.
  • Example: FunctionExpand[ expr , x Reals] performs expansion assuming that x is real.
  • See The Mathematica Book on the web:Section 3.2.13.
  • Implementation Notes on the web: see Section A.9.5.
  • See also: TrigExpand, TrigToExp, ComplexExpand, FullSimplify.