TITLE: Is this a "folk theorem" about analytic functions of a complex variable?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: In a comment on question 110345 I made a claim that might be incorrect. I claimed that if
f(z) is a non-constant analytic function defined by a power series whose circle of convergence C
has a positive radius, then f(z) cannot be bounded at all points in the interior of C. But is 
this really true?  Or am I just imagining that I learned it somewhere. I could not come up with
any simple counter-examples. It sounds like some weird generalization of Liouville's theorem.

REPLY [15 votes]: You are probably misunderstanding the following folk theorem: 
If $D $ is the convergence disc of a power series converging to $f$, then there must be some singularity of $f$ on $\partial D$. In other words, you cannot continue $f$ analytically onto a larger disc.
A counterexample that is more explicit than quids example is the power series expansion of $\sqrt{1+z}$ around $z=0$, which has convergence radius $1$. The singularity at $z=-1$ is not a pole.
A hint to the proof: if $D \subset U$ is a disc in the domain of definition of a holomorphic function $f$, then the Taylor expansion around the midpoint of $D$ converges in $D$.