Discontinuous partial derivatives example

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$$f(x,y)=\left\{\begin{array}{ccc} (x^2+y^2)\sin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}\right) & , & (x,y)\neq (0,0) \\ 0 & , & (x,y)=(0,0) \end{array}\right.$$
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$$f(x,y)=\left\{\begin{array}{ccc} (x^2+y^2)\sin\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}\right) & , & (x,y)\neq (0,0) \\ 0 & , & (x,y)=(0,0) \end{array}\right.$$ This function is differentiable at (0,0) point but ##f_x## and ##f_y## partial derivatives not continuous at (0,0) point. I need another examples like this. Thank you.
 
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Take a classical univariate differentiable but not continuously differentiable example:
[tex] f(x) := \begin{cases} x^2 \sin (1/x), &x\neq 0 \\ 0,&x=0 \end{cases}[/tex]
Then define
[tex] h(x,y) = f(x) + f(y).[/tex]
Obviously, one can extend this to arbitrary finite dimension.
 
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