Find if a function is periodic

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I'm looking for a way to prove that a function is periodic (or not periodic) by definition.

For example, I tried to prove that $\frac{1}{1+x^2}$ is not periodic by comparing it to $\frac{1}{1+(x+p)^2}$ ($p\in R$) and see if I can get a constant, and as expected I didn't.

Yet, with actual periodic function it didn't work.

How can I do it the right way?

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$$f(x)=\left(\frac{1}{1+x^2}\right)$$ $$f(x+T)=\left(\frac{1}{1+(x+T)^2}\right)$$ $$f(x)=f(x+T)$$ $$\left(\frac{1}{1+x^2}\right)=\left(\frac{1}{1+(x+T)^2}\right)$$ $$x^2=(x+T)^2$$ $$x^2=x^2+T^2+2xT$$ $$T(T+2x)=0$$ Therefore, $$T=0;T=-2x$$

So, the values of $T$ that we've obtained aren't independent of $x$, neither are they positive real(s) greater than zero. Hence, the given function isn't periodic.

This is the method to determine if a function is periodic or not, "by definition".

If you weren't able to obtain a suitable value for T for a function you know is periodic, then you've simply made some sort of calci error.

Thus, please revert with the periodic function whose periodicity you weren't able to prove.