Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ib Paper 4 3F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-07
For differentiable maps at and at , the chain rule assertsWrite with , and with . Since , substitution givesBoth remaining terms are , proving differentiability and the stated chain rule. The estimate for also holds when its argument is zero, by setting .
For the circle constraint take . The composite is constant, so the chain rule givesSince , this is a nonzero row vector annihilating . Thus cannot be invertible: at every . Geometrically, the derivative of a map into a level set takes values in the tangent space to the circle.