Definition:Laurent Series/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Laurent series
The Laurent series expansion of an analytic function was established by Carl Friedrich Gauss in $1843$, but he never got round to publishing this work.
Karl Weierstrass independently discovered it during his work to rebuild the theory of complex analysis.
Sources
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.25$: Gauss ($\text {1777}$ – $\text {1855}$)
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.33$: Weierstrass ($\text {1815}$ – $\text {1897}$)