Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2004 / ib / Paper 4 / 4E / iii

Suppose an analytic extension $F$ existed on the punctured plane. The identity theorem would extend $F^2=z$ from $D$ to that connected domain, so $F$ would never vanish and differentiation would give $2F^{\prime }/F=1/z$. Integrate around the positively oriented unit circle. The argument principle says $\int F^{\prime }/F$ is $2\pi i$ times the integer winding number of the closed curve $F(e^{it})$ about zero, whereasThis would make that winding number $1/2$, a contradiction. Hence no such analytic extension exists. Equivalently, continuation of a square root once around zero reverses its sign, preventing a single-valued holomorphic function on the punctured plane.