Exercise 1523Calculus › Single-variable calculus › Differentiation › Taylor expansionsL3Added 3 Nov 2026
An expansion of order 2 without a second derivative
#Taylor-Young converse#counterexample#differentiability
Statement
Let for and .
- Show that as : admits an expansion of order at .
- Show that is differentiable at but not twice differentiable at .
Hint
. For part 2, compute for and look at .
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Solution
1. . Hence .
2. , so . For ,
Then
which has no limit as (the first term tends to and oscillates in ). So does not exist.
Remark. Taylor–Young says: twice differentiable at expansion of order . The converse is false for orders (it is true for order : an expansion of order is equivalent to differentiability).