The document discusses Taylor and Laurent series expansions. It provides examples of using these expansions to represent functions around points. Taylor series provides a power series representation of an analytic function around a point. Laurent series allows representing functions in annular regions, including points where the function is not analytic, using both positive and negative powers of (z - z0). Examples show deducing Laurent series expansions for simple functions like z4 and 1/z4 around various points, and evaluating coefficients via contour integrals and the residue theorem. The document also gives an example of using a contour integral to compute a Greens function in many-particle physics.