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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ib Paper 2 14C Solution by
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Near zero, expand and invert the parenthesized series. The first three nonzero Laurent series terms areThe zero quadratic coefficient also follows from , which makes odd. The nearest other singularities are at .
All poles of occur at , , and have residue one, since the derivative of equals one at those zeros. AlsoThus subtracts the complete principal part at zero and at every pole with . These are all the poles in the stated open disk; each singularity of there is removable.
For , expanding each rational summand in inverse powers givesThis contributes no constant or positive-power term. To find the first Taylor coefficients of the analytic , expand near zero as and subtract it from the already calculated local series of . Combining its Taylor series with the exterior series above yields the three requested annular coefficients:Both series converge on , so this combination is a valid Laurent expansion there.
For the Basel sum from exponential poles, let . The Laurent coefficient formula givesThe function is bounded on these circles by one constant independent of . Indeed, if , use ; if , use . In the remaining strip , the imaginary part has magnitude , within of the odd multiple of . Its cosine is negative, so .
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