I was reading about one one functions and found out that they cannot have maxima or minima except at endpoints of domain. So their derivative , if it exists, must not change it sign , i.e. , the function should be either strictly increasing or strictly decreasing. From this I've a feeling that all continuous one one functions must be differentiable . Is this true?
Answer
Not by a long shot. Take, for example, the function
$$f(x) = \begin{cases}x & x\leq 0\\ 2x & x\geq 0\end{cases}$$
Which is continuous and one-to-one on $\mathbb R$, but is not differentiable at $0$.
This is of course just one example, but in general, any time you "stick" two functions together at a point where their derivatives are not equal, like in my example, you can cause the resulting function to have a point at which it is not differentiable.
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