Given the function $ f(x,y) = \sqrt[3]{y}\cdot \arctan(x)$ discuss the existence and continuity of it's partial derivatives and existence of it's total derivative.
Since the partial derivative $ \frac{\partial f}{\partial y} = \frac{\arctan(x)}{3\sqrt[3]{y^2}}$ has discontinuity at $y=0$, I tried to compute the partial derivative at $(x,0)$ using the limit, which gives: $ \lim_{t\to0} \frac{f(x,t) - f(x,0)}{t} = \lim_{t\to 0} \frac{\sqrt[3]{t}}{t}\arctan(x) = +\infty.$
Does this mean that the partial derivative doesn't exist at $(x,0)$? So there's no total derivative at $(x,0)$ and it can be said that the function is not differentiable at $\mathbb{R}^2$ ?