Complex Analysis/Elementary Functions/Exponential Functions
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Consider the real-valued exponential function
defined by exp(x) = ex . It has the following properties:
1) 
2) 
3) 
We want to extend the exponential function exp to the complex numbers in such a way that
1) 
2) 
3) 
But ez has been already defined for z = iθ and we have eiθ = cosθ + isinθ.
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