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editing the article for better clarity while you become familiar with the subject area. The lead section is the place to have the most immediate comprehensibility. You might find that some editors disagree with your wording choices, but that is all part of the cooperative editing process – which in the end leads to higher-quality articles. —
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It is much worse: There is a wealth of different mistakes! Due to sloppy notation, the point sets and the vector spaces are confused and the action of the vector space on the point set and the addition in the vector spaces are confused. There is no Mx, since x is a point and M a linear function. If M
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This means that many statements in this article are incorrect, such as the one in the opening paragraph "For every pair of line segments AB and A'B' in the affine plane, there is a dilation mapping the first to the second." This is again not what the cited source (Coxeter 1969 again) says: the actual
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This is not in agreement with the definition given at the beginning of the article, as an "automorphism" and "a function which maps an affine space onto itself". At least if m = 0, the image of such a function is a single point. But even for m different from 0, in how does it map the real line onto
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Thank you for implementing this change, Bill. I think it would be a good idea, at the end of the section on affine maps, to add a sentence remarking that an affine transformation is a special case of an affine map (where the two affine spaces are the same), and (if the explanation is not completely
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I agree the intro is a mess and so are portions of the article. The problem as I see it is that some editors have confounded the concept of "affine mapping" (in Berger's sense) between affine spaces and an "affine transformation" on a given affine space. True, an affine transformation is a special
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I looked at the source and discovered the symbol is called 'varphi'. The entry on phi discusses this as a font variety associated with older fonts, and suggests that a stroked phi ought to always be used in mathematics... but I do not feel comfortable making a change here because I do not know if
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There appears to be a constraint in that section that would make this impossible. The affine maps are all linear maps, represented by square matrices, but you need an augmented matrix (or projective map) in order to represent translations. So, I would guess that they are missing for a reason.
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I recently received top grades in college calculus. I am currently working in computer graphics as a consumer of the methods others write that implement this math. If this is not within my realm of comprehension, for whom is it written?
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