Can I generate a continuous and non-differentiable function with basic calculus tools? Is there a simple way of expressing such a function?
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4Non-differentiable everywhere? At a point? What do you mean by "basic calculus tools"? – Pedro Aug 19 '13 at 01:42
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It was supposed to be a function ND at infinite if not at all points in x-y plane.Soryy<I coud'nt put my point clearly. – RamChandra Aug 19 '13 at 02:04
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I spelt sorry wrongly.By the waycan you tell me what's the difference between a class and a set? – RamChandra Aug 19 '13 at 02:07
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The function $|x|$ is (uniformly) continuous everywhere, but not differentiable at $0$, because it has a corner. Finite sums of this function can give continuous maps which are not differentiable at any given finite set, and careful scaling can extend this to countable sets.
A continuous function which is nowhere differentiable is harder to construct, but quite doable with infinite series.
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That was helpful.I realize that I was dumb enough to miss that point. – RamChandra Aug 19 '13 at 02:03
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If $\psi(x) = 1_{[-1,1]}(x)(1-|x|) $, and we let $f(x)=\sum_n \psi(x-n)$, then $f$ is not differentiable on $\mathbb{Z}$. – copper.hat Aug 19 '13 at 03:04
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Yeah! something that uses the same concept on ND of modulus at a point – RamChandra Aug 19 '13 at 11:42