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What is the most interesting formula involving elementary functions? In his beautiful article [2], whose exposition we closely follow, Jürgen Elstrodt nominates as a first candidate the partial fraction expansion of the cotangent function:
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2014). Cotangent and the Herglotz trick. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44205-0_25
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