Laurent series expansion, can one simplify this?

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I have to expand $f(z)=\frac{z-1}{(z^2+1)z}$ in an annulus $R(i,1,2)$.


$$f(z)=\frac{1}{z-i}\frac{1}{z+i}-\frac{1}{z-i}\Big(\frac{i}{z+i}-\frac{i}{z}\Big)$$


$$\frac{1}{z-i}\frac{1}{z+i}=\frac{1}{z-i}\cdot\frac{1}{2i}\cdot\frac{1}{1-(-(z-i)/2i)}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n (\frac{1}{2i})^{n+1}(z-i)^n$$


$$\frac{i}{z+i}=\frac{1}{2}\cdot \frac{1}{1-(-(z-i)/2i)}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n (\frac{1}{2i})^{n}\frac{1}{2}(z-i)^n$$


$$\frac{i}{z}=\frac{i}{z-i}\cdot\frac{1}{1-(-i/(z-i))}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n i^{n+1}(\frac{1}{z-i})^{n+1}$$


Finally we got:

$$f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n (\frac{1}{2i})^{n+1}(z-i)^n-\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n (\frac{1}{2i})^{n+1}(z-i)^{n-1}+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n i^{n+1}(\frac{1}{z-i})^{n+2}=\frac{1}{2i}\cdot\frac{1}{z-i}+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\Big( (-1)^{n-1}(\frac{1}{2i})^{n}-(-1)^n (\frac{1}{2i})^{n+1}\Big)(z-i)^{n-1}+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-1)^n i^{n+1}(\frac{1}{z-i})^{n+2}$$

My questions are: is this expansion correct? And can one simplify it?

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From partial fractions, we have that $$ f(z) = \frac{-1}{z} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{1+i}{z+i} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{1-i}{z-i} $$

For the Laurent series in annulus, I obtained: \begin{align} \frac{-1}{z} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{1+i}{z+i} + \frac{1}{2}\frac{1-i}{z-i} &= \frac{-1}{z-i}\frac{1}{1+\bigl(\frac{i}{z-i}\bigr)} + \frac{1}{4i}\frac{1+i}{1+\bigl(\frac{z -i}{2i}\bigr)}+\frac{1}{2}\frac{1-i}{z-i}\\ &= \frac{1}{2}\frac{1-i}{z-i}+\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\biggl[i^n\frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{(z-i)^{n+1}}+\frac{1+i}{4i}\Bigl(\frac{i}{2}\Bigr)^n(z-i)^n\biggr] \end{align} I checked the results on Mathematica as well and it checked out. However, Wolfram online wouldn't compute it, so I attached a screen shot of my results. enter image description here

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Hi this series as generalitation of Laurent Series in three poles $$\sum _{k=-1}^n \left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{i}{2}\right) \left((-i)^k-i i^k\right) x^k+\frac{(-1)^{n-1} \left(\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{i}{2}\right) x^{n+1}\right)}{x-i}+\frac{(-1)^{n-1} \left(\left(\frac{1}{2}+\frac{i}{2}\right) x^{n+1}\right)}{x+i}$$