minima and second order derivative

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let $E$ be a banach space and $f:E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ differentiable

we know that $x_0$ is local minimizer , if there existe a neighborhood $ V\subset E$ such that :

$f(x_0)\leq f(x)$ for all $x\in V$

and a way to prove $x_0$ is local minimizer is to prove that $f^{'}(x_0)= 0$ and $f^{"}(x_0)>0$

I have a little confusion : I believe that if I can show that $f^{'}(x_0)= 0$ and $f^{"}(x_0)\geq0$ we can easily see by Taylor expansion that $f(x_0)\leq f(x)$

I do not see where he is the problem

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thank you @humanStampedist your contre example is great ,

to simplify the notations i will take $ x_0=0$ and $F=f$ so

$F(t)=F(0)+ t F^{'}(0) +\frac{t^2}{2}F^{"}(0) + o(t^2)$ and we have $F'(0)=0$ so $F(t)=F(0)+\frac{t^2}{2}F^{"}(0) + o(t^2)$
as $F^{"}(0)\geq 0 $ then $\frac{t^2}{2}F^{"}(0) + o(t^2)$

this imlpies $F(t)=F(0)+\frac{t^2}{2}F^{"}(0) + o(t^2)\geq F(0)$

in this cases 0 is a local minimum