Affine Group

In mathematics, the affine group or general affine group of any affine space over a field K is the group of all invertible affine transformations from the space into itself.

It is a Lie group if K is the real or complex field or quaternions.

Read more about Affine Group:  Matrix Representation, Planar Affine Group

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