Chapter 2

1 Transformations of the kind y = y0 + Ax, allowing the origin to shift, are also useful, e.g. in representing rigid-body motions through affine transformations, the rotation components of which are linear transformations.

2 Note that it is ‘a’ definition. Why not ‘the’ definition?

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