Solution

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Differentiability at means that a linear map exists with
The map is the total derivative. A linear map between these finite-dimensional spaces is bounded, so . Thus differentiability implies continuity.
For the displayed two-variable function,
Writing gives . Therefore it is differentiable at the origin, with derivative zero.
Finally, put , write with , and with . Since ,
By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality the last two terms are : is bounded and stays bounded. Hence
Only continuity of at is needed, because the vanishing of removes the term which would otherwise require differentiating .

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