Sentence 1: Scaling is a homothetic transformation and constitutes a special case of homothetic transformation ; in most cases , non-linear transformations are linear transformations .
Sentence 2: Scaling is a linear transformation , and a special case of homothetic transformation . In most cases , the homothetic transformations are non-linear transformations .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?