Non-isolated singularity points

I am having trouble understanding non-isolated singularity points. An isolated singularity point I do kind of understand, it is when: a point $z_0$ is said to be isolated if $z_0$ is a singular point and has a neighborhood throughout which $f$ is analytic except at $z_0$. For example, why would $\text{tan}(1/z),\ \text{log}(z),\text{or even}\ \frac{1}{\sin(\frac{\pi}{z})}$ have a non-isolated singularity point?

• yes! but $e^{1/z}$ has essential singularity at $z=0$ as you expand it in laurent series expansion. number of negative terms are infinitely many Mar 7, 2013 at 4:49
• @CityOfGod I havent yet heard of essential singularity, but it isnt far removed from this section. I am going to look it up now. Mar 7, 2013 at 4:54
• Branch points are examples of non-isolated singularity points. Not only is there no punctured neighborhood of the branch point in which a function can be made analytic, there is no punctured neighborhood of the branch point in which a function can be made continuous! Mar 7, 2013 at 5:22

$\tan(1/z)$ has a non-isolated singularity at $z=0$, which is the limit of the singularities at $\dfrac{2}{\pi}, \dfrac{2}{3\pi}, \dfrac{2}{5\pi}, \ldots$.
The singularity of $\log(z)$ at $z=0$ is a branch point: this is on a curve where any particular branch of $\log(z)$ is discontinuous (e.g. the negative real axis in the case of the principal branch).
• $\sum_{n=0}^\infty z^{2^n}$. See lacunary function. Apr 9, 2021 at 19:41