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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 1 7 d ii Solution by
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The complex exponential never vanishes. The zeros of occur at , , and they are simple because . The numerator is there, so no cancellation occurs. ThereforeFor example their residues are .
Infinity requires care: the poles themselves tend to infinity. Equivalently has poles at accumulating at zero. Thus , and it is not a zero. In the usual classification of isolated singularities, it cannot be called a removable singularity, pole or isolated essential singularity. The non-isolated singularity distinction is necessary even though the function is meromorphic at every finite point.
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