Laurent series

American

[law-rent, law-rahn] / lɔˈrɛnt, lɔˈrɑ̃ /

noun

Mathematics.

a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.

Etymology

Origin of Laurent series

Named after Hermann Laurent (1841–1908), French mathematician

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A tidbit for mathematicians: The function depicted here is a short Laurent series for a meremorphic function where the highest power is four and the lowest power is negative six.

From Scientific American

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