arctan(z)

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Here is a picture of the function arctan(z) on the domain D=C\{iy: |y| \ge 1}. It is a "branch" of the inverse to the function tan(z) with value 0 at z = 0. The formula used to generate this picture is



arctan(z)= (1/2)log((1+iz)/(1-iz))

The image of D by the map (1+iz)/(1-iz) is the slit plane: C\(-infty,0] and then the principal branch of the logarithm is applied ( -pi < arg < pi).