Cauchy's residue sore thumb

Abstract

Cauchy's method from two centuries ago for computing integrals along the real axis by passing into the complex plane is not rigorous by present-day standards. Yet when properly formulated, his original approach is simpler than modern presentations of the residue calculus.

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