“Residues arise … naturally in several branches of analysis …. Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ….”

—  Augustin Louis Cauchy

Sur un nouveau genre de calcul, 1826.

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