Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2002 / ib / Paper 4 / 17B / a / Solution

Set $M_R={\max }_{0\le \theta \le \pi }|f(R{e}^{i\theta })|$. The complex limit at infinity gives $M_R\to 0$. Parametrizing the semicircle and using $|e^{i\lambda R{e}^{i\theta }}|=e^{-\lambda R\sin \theta }$ yieldsBy symmetry and the supplied sine bound,The arc integral is therefore at most $(\pi /\lambda )M_R$, tending to zero. This proves the required vanishing, the relevant form of Jordan's lemma. No holomorphicity of $f$ is required just for this arc estimate.