Complex Analysis/Elementary Functions/Exponential Functions

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Consider the real-valued exponential function ex. It has the following properties: 1) ex0x 2) ex+y=exeyx,y 3) (ex)=exx We want to extend the exponential function exp to the complex numbers in such a way that 1) ez0z 2) ez+w=ezewz,w 3) (ez)=ezz

But ez has been already defined for z=iθ and we have eiθ=cosθ+isinθ.