Evaluating a sum using a contour integral.
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One of my favorite Dover books, [1], is a powerhouse of a reference, and has a huge set of the mathematical tricks and techniques. Probably most of the tricks that any engineer or physicist would ever want.
Reading it a bit today, I encountered the following interesting looking theorem for evaluating sums using contour integrals.
Theorem 1.1:
Given a…










