The Circle Example
Let us go back to the example of the unit circle. In this case and . The matrix of partial derivatives is just a 1×2 matrix, given by
Thus, here, is just a number; the linear map defined by it is invertible iff . By the implicit function theorem we see that we can locally write the circle in the form for all points where . For and we run into trouble, as noted before.
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