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A First Course in Complex Analysis

Chapter 9 Isolated Singularities and the Residue Theorem

\(\frac 1 {r^2}\) has a nasty singularity at \(r=0\text{,}\) but it did not bother Newton—the moon is far enough.
―Edward Witten
We return one last time to the starting point of Chapter 7 and Chapter 8: the quest for
\begin{equation*} \int_{ C[2,3] } \frac{ \exp(z) }{ \sin(z) } \, \diff{z} \,\text{.} \end{equation*}
We computed this integral in Example 8.3.10 crawling on hands and knees (but we finally computed it!), by considering various Taylor and Laurent expansions of \(\exp(z)\) and \(\frac 1 { \sin(z) }\text{.}\) In this chapter, we develop a calculus for similar integral computations.