I had this problem with the simplification of Boolean expressions.
There's this algorithm by Quine-McCluskey where the expression is
reduced to a "standard form" and then simplified. I guess there's an
analogue for algebraic expressions as well. I'm yet to implement the
QM algorithm in sympy.

On Feb 26, 10:40 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Priit Laes <plaes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 26, 6:57 pm, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Priit Laes <plaes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Yesterday I ran into some trouble when trying to integrate a simple
> >> > integral that should return atan(x). I also found an open bug about
> >> > this topic:http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=636&q=atan
> >> > .
>
> >> > So, I took a peek into sympy/simplify/simplify.py's trigsimp function.
> >> > So I tried to add the specific form with imaginary units into matchers
> >> > list under ifelse expr.is_Add but it doesn't seem to work :(
>
> >> Thanks for trying --- this function needs some polishing, I'll try to
> >> have a look at it if you don't manage to fix it yourself.
>
> > Ugh, there's currently a big bug in my code, but even if I correct it
> > there's no way it would work as currently simplifications are made
> > using single terms (so it wont look something "term1 + term2")
>
> Right. Do you have some ideas how to fix it so that it works with
> "term1 + term2"?
>
> Ondrej
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