Gâteaux Differentiability

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Pure Mathematics Dictionary
Definition
A weaker, directional notion of differentiability: at a point x the directional derivative along each vector v exists, i.e. the limit lim_{t→0} (f(x+tv)-f(x))/t exists for every v. It records first-order directional rates but does not a priori require a single bounded linear approximant.