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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 2 4 ii Solution by
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On a positively oriented contour encircling once inside an annulus of analyticity, the Laurent series coefficients areThis follows by inserting the convergent Laurent expansion and integrating term by term: only the term with exponent has nonzero contour integral. Uniform convergence on compact circles in the annulus justifies that step.
For the function at hand,The geometric series converges for , and the pole at zero excludes the centre. ThusThe coefficients are for and zero for . The coefficient formula gives the same result on : , and expansion of selects exactly those coefficients.
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