Is matrix transpose a linear transformation? This was the question posed to me. Does there exist a matrix $A$ for which $AM$ = $M^T$ for every $M$. The answer to this is obviously no as I can vary the dimension of $M$. But now this lead me to think , if I take , lets say only $2\times2$ matrix  into consideration. Now for a matrix $M$, $A=M^TM^{-1}$ so $A$ is not fixed and depends on $M$, but the operation follows all conditions of a linear transformation and I had read that any linear transformation can be represented as a matrix. So is the last statement wrong or my argument flawed?

Answering the title question: "the transpose is a linear map from the space of m × n matrices to the space of all n × m matrices".
