Surprising, but satisfactory. I had forgotten that the meijerg method would 
work for some elliptic integrals, though in this case none of those remain 
in the solution.

On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 10:50:43 PM UTC+3, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> Oh, I take that back:
>
> In [16]: print(integrate(sqrt(sqrt(x))*sqrt(1 + sqrt(x))))
> 2*x**(7/4)/(3*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)) + 5*x**(5/4)/(6*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)) - 
> x**(3/4)/(12*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)) - x**(1/4)/(4*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)) + 
> asinh(x**(1/4))/4
>
> (this is coming from the meijerg algorithm). And I wouldn't be surprised 
> if some rewriting of it made heurisch handle it as well. The real power of 
> the full Risch algorithm is that it uses canonical forms of algebraic 
> functions, so it is immune to simple rewrites like this one. 
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> It's worth pointing out that computing this integral is very likely going 
>> to require the algebraic Risch algorithm. Maybe a pattern matching case for 
>> it can be added to something like Rubi or manulaintegrate (I'm actually 
>> curious if Rubi can do this), but the solution, at least as Sage has 
>> presented it, looks rather complicated (e.g., the fact that the result has 
>> logarithms means that pattern matching integrators are going to be limited 
>> without at least *some* Risch algorithm).
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is correct, at least algebraically:
>>>
>>> In [6]: a = S("-1/12*(3*(sqrt(x) + 1)^(5/2)/x^(5/4) - 8*(sqrt(x) + 
>>> 1)^(3/2)/x^(3/4) - 3*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)/x^(1/4))/((sqrt(x) + 1)^3/x^(3/2) - 
>>> 3*(sqrt(x) + 1)^2/x + 3*(sqrt(x) + 1)/sqrt(x) - 1) + 1/8*log(sqrt(sqrt(x) + 
>>> 1)/x^(1/4) + 1) - 1/8*log(sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)/x^(1/4) - 1)")
>>>
>>> In [7]: print(simplify(a.diff(x)))
>>> x**(1/4)*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)
>>>
>>> (if you distribute sqrt(sqrt(x)) inside the sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1) you get 
>>> sqrt(x + sqrt(x))
>>>
>>> Aaron Meurer
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Kalevi Suominen <[email protected] 
>>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 8:31:41 PM UTC+3, Denis Akhiyarov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sympy cannot do this?
>>>>>
>>>>> integrate(sqrt(x+sqrt(x)))
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, this is computed by SAGE:
>>>>>
>>>>> -1/12*(3*(sqrt(x) + 1)^(5/2)/x^(5/4) - 8*(sqrt(x) + 1)^(3/2)/x^(3/4) - 
>>>>> 3*sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)/x^(1/4))/((sqrt(x) + 1)^3/x^(3/2) - 3*(sqrt(x) + 
>>>>> 1)^2/x 
>>>>> + 3*(sqrt(x) + 1)/sqrt(x) - 1) + 1/8*log(sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)/x^(1/4) + 1) - 
>>>>> 1/8*log(sqrt(sqrt(x) + 1)/x^(1/4) - 1)
>>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> I Is it possible to verify that this really is a solution. The 
>>>> integrand seems to belong to an elliptic function field where integration 
>>>> rarely succeeds in terms of algebraic expressions.
>>>>  
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