Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/ib/paper-2/13a/i/solution

Set . It is entire, and makes . By the just-proved Liouville theorem, is constant. Differentiation gives . The exponential never vanishes, so everywhere and is constant. This is the entire function confined to a half-plane is constant principle.

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