Solution to Exercise 3.23.
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Commonly Used Term in Math
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Exercise 3.23. Show the group of affine transformations of the
Euclidean plane is not commutative.
One
possible counterexample. Let
and
Then
and
Thus, AB does not equal BA. Hence, the group affine transformations of the Euclidean plane is not commutative under matrix multiplication.//
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