Abstract
In this article, I formalise a proof from THE BOOK; namely a formula that was called ‘one of the most beautiful formulas involving elementary functions’:
\[\pi \cot(\pi z) = \frac{1}{z} + \sum_{n=1}^\infty\left(\frac{1}{z+n} + \frac{1}{z-n}\right)\]The proof uses Herglotz's trick to show the real case and analytic continuation for the complex case.