Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2003/ib/paper-3/13e/b/solution

Let , whose power series coefficients are . Suppose some coefficient is nonzero, and let be the least such index. Inside the common convergence disc,
The parenthesized analytic function tends to as , so it does not vanish in some neighborhood. Hence has no zeros sufficiently near except possibly itself. This contradicts with and . Thus all coefficients agree:
This also proves the local isolation of zeros of a nonzero analytic function.

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