I have a short question, related to the ongoing search of mathematics instructors for counter-examples to common undergraduate mistakes.
The classical example of a function that is differentiable everywhere but has discontinuous derivative is
f(x)={x2sin(1/x)(x≠0),0(x=0),
which has derivative
f′(x)={2xsin(1/x)−cos(1/x)(x≠0),0(x=0).
f′ fails to be continuous at 0 purely because its left- and right-hand limits do not even exist at 0.
However, suppose that we have found a function g whose derivative g′ has finite but unequal left- and right-hand limits at some cluster point x0 in its domain. May we conclude that g is not differentiable at x0?
If this is not the case, is there a simple counter-example? (I'm guessing such a counter-example ought to be more complicated than the f I have given above, as f is sometimes claimed to be the simplest example of a differentiable function with discontinuous derivative.)
Thanks in advance!
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