Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2011 / ii / Paper 1 / 2F (Topics in Analysis)

The closed-set version of the Baire category theorem says that if a nonempty complete metric space $X$ is a countable union $X={\bigcup }_{n=1}^{\infty }{F}_n$ of closed sets, then at least one $F_n$ has nonempty interior. Equivalently, a nonempty complete metric space cannot be a countable union of closed nowhere dense sets.

For each integer $n\ge 0$, put $Z_n=\{z:f^{(n)}(z)=0\}$. Every derivative $f^{(n)}$ is an entire function and cannot be identically zero: otherwise repeated integration would make $f$ a polynomial. By the identity theorem for holomorphic functions, its zero set has empty interior, and continuity makes $Z_n$ a closed set. Thus $Z_n$ is nowhere dense.

The complex plane with its usual metric is a complete metric space, so the Baire category theorem gives $z_0\notin {\bigcup }_{n\ge 0}{Z}_n$. The Taylor series there has coefficients