Laurent series
Noun
Meaning
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Laurent series (plural Laurent series)
A power series generalising Taylor series, in which the exponents may be positive or negative integers.
Examples
A Laurent series is thus any series of the form : If such a series converges, then in general it does so in an annulus rather than a disc, and possibly some boundary points.
One may define formal differentiation for formal Laurent series in a natural way (term-by-term).