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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2004 ib Paper 2 16A Solution by
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Define a candidate antiderivative by integration along the straight segment from zero:For in the open unit disc and sufficiently small , the triangle with vertices lies within the disc, since the disc is convex. By the Cauchy integral theorem, its boundary contour integral vanishes. ConsequentlyFor , subtract after division by . The absolute value of the remainder is at most , which tends to zero by continuity of the holomorphic function at . Hence the complex derivative exists and for every point of the disc. This proves that is a holomorphic function and supplies the requested primitive directly from the Cauchy integral theorem.
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