Exercise 9.26

Exercise 26: Show that the existence (and even the continuity) of D 12 f does not imply the existence of D 1 f . For example, let f ( x , y ) = g ( x ) , where is nowhere differentiable.

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Letting f ( x , y ) = g ( x ) be the function given in the example, then D 2 f ( x , y ) = 0 , so D 12 f ( x , y ) = 0 , for all ( x , y ) . However, D 1 f ( x , y ) = g ( x ) does not exist. For g you can use the function defined in Theorem 7.18.

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2023-08-07 00:00
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