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Complex Analysis/Elementary Functions/Exponential Functions
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Consider the real-valued exponential function defined by . It has the following properties:
1)
2)
3)
We want to extend the exponential function to the complex numbers in
such a way that
1)
2)
3)
But has been already defined for and we have
.