How to find the antiderivative of this function?

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I want to integrate this function:

$$\int\dfrac{x^2}{e^x-1}dx$$ I used integration by parts formula to integrate it.
However I have reached somewhere where I got something like this:

$$\int\dfrac{e^xx^3}{(e^x-1)^2}dx$$

Now I cannot go further. Is there any way I can solve this problem from here? Thank you!!

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This has no elementary antiderivative. This involves polylogarithms. See here. As TylerHG also pointed out, you may want to check this.

If so inclined, then you could write the denominator $e^x - 1 = -1 + \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^n}{n!} = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x^n}{n!}$

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$\int\dfrac{x^2}{e^x-1}dx$

$=\int\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty\dfrac{B_nx^{n+1}}{n!}dx$ (with the formula in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_number#Generating_function)

$=\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty\dfrac{B_nx^{n+2}}{n!(n+2)}+C$