intgration: int [(1 + x^4)^(1/4)] dx

I ran this through Maple and it gave me:

\(\displaystyle \L\\x\text{hypergeom}\left(\begin{bmatrix}\frac{-1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}\end{bmatrix},\begin{bmatrix}\frac{5}{4}\end{bmatrix},-x^{4}\right)\)

Whatever that means.

In other words, one booger of an integral to do and not by elementary means.
 
ss_math said:
Please integrate with respect to x:

. . .int [(1+x^4)^1/4] dx
Why do you think it can be done? Where did you get this problem? What have you tried?
 
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