Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In 1957 Hájek [1] proved that the extreme bilateral derivates of an arbitrary finite real valued function of a real variable, are Borel measurable of class ≦ 2. It was later shown by Staniszewska [3] that Hájek's result is the best possible (even among the class of functions satisfying a Lipschitz condition). Staniszewska exhibited a Eipschitz function whose extreme bilateral derivates are not in Borel class 1. Staniszewska's proof makes use of a result of Zahorski's [4] concerning kernel functions.