Contour integral, taylor and residue theory question

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Homework Statement



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I can't seem to get far. It makes use of the Exponentional Taylor Series:

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The Attempt at a Solution


taylor series expansions for cos and 1/z i assume - and stick it into the residual theorem, but i need to get it into the laurent series form first so that i can find out b1. I think it's like pole order 4 or 5 so it's going to be a pain
 
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my attempt at a solution
is this on the right track?
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It has been a while but it does look correct to me. You can do it a little bit easier though if you know the series expansion of the cosine.

<br /> z^5 \cos(\frac{1}{z})=z^5 \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} (-1)^k \frac{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)^{2k}}{(2k)!}=...+\frac{-1}{6!z}+...<br />
 
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Why is the Taylor's series for ez a "relevant" equation? Use the Taylor's series for cos(z), replace z by 1/z so that you get a power series in negative powers of z (a "Laurent series") and then multiply by z^5 so you have a power series with highest power z5 and decreasing. It should be easy to see that, integrating term by term, every term gives 0 except the z-1 term.
 
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