Physical meaning of results in Complex analysis

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It appears to me that many results in complex analysis "kind of" have meaning in physics, but I struggle to find a clear explanation.

  1. Cauchy's integration theorem. It's quite common in physics to have contour integrals equal to zero in a potential. However, those potentials are all real-valued function, and I struggle to find a "complex-valued" example.
  2. Liouville's theorem, or Picardy's little theorem. I remember someone telling me about their meaning in physics, but I cannot remember it now. Can anyone give me a clue?

I would really appreaciate physical interpretation of other theorems as well.

Are there any good books that includes such interpretation in physics?