
intuition - What is the affine space and what is it for?
It may be more fruitful to compare groups of transformations. Speaking of groups acting on a Cartesian space, with the analogous questions in parentheses: orthogonal transformations …
What is the difference between linear and affine function?
Jun 8, 2023 · An affine function is the composition of a linear function with a translation, so while the linear part fixes the origin, the translation can map it somewhere else.
仿射函数这名字好深奥,但概念其实非常简单,为什么要取这个名 …
我整理一下我查到的资料: “仿射”这个词,翻译自英语affine,为什么会翻译出这两个字,我没查到。 英语affine,来自于英语affinity。英语词根fin来自于拉丁语finis,表示“边界,末端”,例 …
What are differences between affine space and vector space?
First, do you understand the definition of affine space that the authors have given? If so, can you distinguish between the notion of a vector space and the notion of an affine space?
What *is* affine space? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Jul 6, 2015 · An affine space is a slightly restricted version of this where you only allow operations where $\sum r_i = 1$ ("affine linear combinations"). In particular you can't multiply by zero, so …
difference between similarity and affine transformation
Aug 12, 2020 · On wikipedia I read that similarity transformation is a subgroup of affine transformation. But I didn't get the difference. Can someone explain it in easy words for …
affine geometry - What does it mean to be "affinely independent", …
May 2, 2017 · Roughly speaking, affine independence is like linear independence but without the restriction that the subset of lower dimension the points lie in contains the origin. So three …
Definition of an affine set - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Apr 14, 2017 · 10 Note that the second definition is a generalisation of the first. A set is affine iff it contains all lines through any two points in the set (hence, as a trivial case, a set containing a …
What is an Affine Span? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Sep 11, 2021 · According to this definition of affine spans from wikipedia, "In mathematics, the affine hull or affine span of a set S in Euclidean space Rn is the smallest affine set …
Definition of an affine subspace - Mathematics Stack Exchange
According to this definition the subset $\ { (0,0); (0,1)\}$ is an affine subspace, while this is not so according to the usual definition of an affine subspace.