Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 4 10E a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
By equivalent norms, choose with . Differentiability in the first norm means that there is a bounded linear map with and . The same is bounded in the second norm, since . Moreover,The two norms define the same approach , so this proves differentiability with the same Fréchet derivative in the second norm. Reversing the norms proves the converse.
For completeness, the derivative is unique: if both work, fix and take . The two remainder estimates imply as , so for every . Thus differentiability and its derivative are independent of the chosen norm. This is differentiability under equivalent norms, not merely invariance of continuity.