Tuesday, 20 October 2015

real analysis - Incorrect Chain Rule Proof




I have a valid proof for the Chain Rule, however I do not understand why the 'arguement' given here is incorrect.



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Answer



The problem is simply that if g were constant in a neighborhood of a, then g(x)g(a)=0 when x is close to a, and thus you are dividing by 0.


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