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Directional derivatives do not imply differentiability

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Define f(x,y)=x3/(x2+y2) away from the origin and zero at the origin. Every directional derivative exists. Along a unit vector n, the derivative at the origin is n13​, which is not linear in n. 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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