Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
A period of a function f(z) is defined to be a number ω (≠ 0) such that
is identically zero; and it can be shown that an integral function may either have no periods or else a single sequence kλ (k = ± 1, ± 2, …).
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