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andrewla 2 days ago

No, with projective geometry or affine geometry you can make translation into a linear operation. But in ordinary Euclidean space translation is not a linear operation.

Most obvious case that it fails is that it doesn't map zero to itself, and you can see the contradiction there:

    T(0 + 0) = T(0) = t
    T(0) + T(0) = t + t = 2 * t