A Simple Way to Prove the Characterization of Differentiable Quasiconvex Functions

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We give a short and easy proof of the characterization of differentiable quasiconvex functions.

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Giorgi, G. (2014) A Simple Way to Prove the Characterization of Differentiable Quasiconvex Functions. Applied Mathematics, 5, 1226-1228. doi: 10.4236/am.2014.58114.

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