/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11900985
Why not? I am not familiar with the American system.

>>11900990
>Makes sense, the zero vector wouldn't stay at 0 right?
Precisely. That's the immediate failure.
>Someone mentioned affine spaces with reference to this, but I don't know anything about them.
If you want a quick rundown, maybe (a very maybe-ish maybe) Rotman's AT book and its chapter on affine stuff (the second chapter should I not be completely mistaken).
>Also I saw somewhere that you can represent a translation in n space with a shear in n+1 space, is that true?
Probably yes. It's a linear map and you get one extra dimension to play with.
>Thank you so, so much for this anon. It's been really helpful, I mean it.
No problem <3