Directional derivatives do not imply differentiability

ID: directional-derivatives-do-not-imply-differentiability

Define away from the origin and zero at the origin. Every directional derivative exists. Along a unit vector , the derivative at the origin is , which is not linear in . Thus these directional derivatives cannot be the restrictions of one Fréchet derivative, and the function is not Fréchet differentiable at that point.

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