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Intuitively, an affine space is a vector space without a ‘preferred origin’, that is as a set of points such that at each of these there is associated a model (a reference) vector space.
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Landi, G., Zampini, A. (2018). Affine Linear Geometry. In: Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78361-1_14
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