Help with Eulers relation in Fourier analysis

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Hi I'm doing Fourier analysis in my signals and system course and I'm looking at the solution to one basic problem but I'm having trouble understanding one step
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Can anyone explain to me why
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becomes
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From Eulers formula: http://i.imgur.com/1LtTiKX.png

for example the Cosine in my problem. I thought the "twos" would cancel each other but instead becomes 4 and simular for the sine.
 
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If
[tex]\cos z = \frac{e^{jz} + e^{-jz}}{2}[/tex]
then multiply everything by 2 to get
[tex]2 \cos z = e^{jz} + e^{-jz}[/tex]

Or you can use the identity
[tex]e^{jz} = \cos(z) + j \sin(z)[/tex]
and also immediately get
[tex]e^{jz} + e^{-jz} = \cos(z) + j \sin(z) + \cos(z) - j \sin(z) = 2 \cos(z)[/tex]