The barrier cone of a convex set and the closure of the cover.
For convex continuous functions defined respectively in neighborhoods of points in a normed linear space, a formula for the distance between and in terms of (i.eẇithout using the dual) is proved. Some corollaries, like a new characterization of the subdifferential of a continuous convex function at a point, are given. This, together with a theorem from [4], implies a sufficient condition for a family of continuous convex functions on a barrelled normed linear space to be locally uniformly...