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Simple question, this word keeps popping up in complex analysis but my book hasn't given an exact definition of what a contour is. Is it just a region in the complex plane bounded by a curve? So when the books says for instance "integrate over a contour" is that equivalent to just integrating over a closed surface in ℝ2?
Another question which also troubles me quite a bit:
Due to the cauchy riemann relations we have:
[itex]\oint[/itex]Cf(z)dz = 0
But still I often see things like: "Consider two closed contours A and B in the argand diagram, B being sufficiently small that it lies completely within C. Show that if f(z) is analytic in the region between the two contours then:
[itex]\oint[/itex]Cf(z)dz = [itex]\oint[/itex]Bf(z)dz
But shouldn't that be obvious since they are both equal to zero?
Another question which also troubles me quite a bit:
Due to the cauchy riemann relations we have:
[itex]\oint[/itex]Cf(z)dz = 0
But still I often see things like: "Consider two closed contours A and B in the argand diagram, B being sufficiently small that it lies completely within C. Show that if f(z) is analytic in the region between the two contours then:
[itex]\oint[/itex]Cf(z)dz = [itex]\oint[/itex]Bf(z)dz
But shouldn't that be obvious since they are both equal to zero?