Equivalence of Frechet derivative to first order expansion

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Let $V$ and $W$ be normed vector spaces, and $U \subset V$ be an open subset of $V$. A function $f: U \to W$ is called Frechet differentiable at $x \in U$ if there exists a bounded linear operator $A: V \to W$ s.t

$$ \lim_{ || h || \to 0 } \frac{||f(x+h) - f(x) - Ah||_W} {||h||_V}=0$$

Limit here is meant in the limit of function defined on metric space.., and the above expression as the function of arguements H in V. As a consequence, it must exist for all sequences $\langle h_n\rangle_{n=1}^{\infty}$ of non-zero elements of $V$ that converge to the zero vector $h_n \to 0$. Equivalently, the first order expansion holds:

$$f(x+h) = f(x) + Ah + o(h)$$

I didn't understand how the limit definition with norm got turned into the first order expansion definition. Could someone explain to me how the equivalence can be shown in more detail?

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In the first order expansion $o(h)$ has to be function $o : U \to W$ such that $\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{\lVert o(h) \rVert}{\lVert h \rVert} = 0$. Intuively, it has to go faster to $0$ than $h$.

If $f$ is Frechet differentiable at $x$, then we define $$o(h) = f(x+h) - f(x) - A h .$$ Of course this is the only possibility to get $f(x+h) = f(x) + Ah + o(h)$. Then by definition $\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{\lVert o(h) \rVert}{\lVert h \rVert} = 0$.

Conversely, if we have a first order expansion $f(x+h) = f(x) + Ah + o(h)$, then $$\frac{\lVert f(x+h) - f(x) - A h \rVert}{\lVert h \rVert} = \frac{\lVert o(h) \rVert}{\lVert h \rVert}$$ which gives Frechet differentiability at $x$.

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The equivalence is quite immediate by recalling the definition of $o(\lVert h\rVert)$ (which is what it's actually supposed to be), as then

$$f(x+h)-f(x)-Ah=o(\lVert h\rVert)$$

if and only if

$$\lim_{h\to0}\frac{\lVert f(x+h)-f(x)-Ah\rVert}{\lVert h\rVert}.$$