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In this chapter, we shall prove the so-called “big” theorem of Picard which asserts that a holomorphic function with an (isolated) essential singularity assumes every value with at most one exception in any neighborhood of that singularity.
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Narasimhan, R. (1985). Picard’s Theorem. In: Complex Analysis in one Variable. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1106-6_4
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