Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 1 2D ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
For , the denominator zeroes are . Its derivative is , nonzero at each such point. ThusThese poles accumulate at zero. Consequently zero is a non-isolated singularity, as described by reciprocal cosine with accumulating poles. It is not an isolated essential singularity: no punctured disc about zero is a domain of holomorphy for this reciprocal function. Although itself has an essential singularity at zero, taking its reciprocal introduces this accumulation of poles.