Contour Integral, Where am I going wrong?

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So, my book (Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences 3rd ed by Boas) proposed a problem that I have really been struggling with:
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I know it is probably just an algebra mistake, but I have gone over it multiple times and cannot seem to find my mistake. Any ideas? The answer is supposed to be 2Pi/9.
Thank you in advance for any help.
 
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BigFlorida said:
So, my book (Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences 3rd ed by Boas) proposed a problem that I have really been struggling with:
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I know it is probably just an algebra mistake, but I have gone over it multiple times and cannot seem to find my mistake. Any ideas? The answer is supposed to be 2Pi/9.
Thank you in advance for any help.

The image is too small and blurry to make out properly, so I will not even try. Why don't you do what others here do, and type it out?
 
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There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...

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