diff --git a/docs/src/lib/interfaces/LazySet.md b/docs/src/lib/interfaces/LazySet.md
index c72ac8933e..b007421a75 100644
--- a/docs/src/lib/interfaces/LazySet.md
+++ b/docs/src/lib/interfaces/LazySet.md
@@ -413,7 +413,6 @@ CurrentModule = LazySets
 ```
 ```@docs
 linear_map(::AbstractMatrix, ::LazySet; kwargs...)
-linear_map(::Number, ::LazySet; kwargs...)
 project(::LazySet, ::AbstractVector{Int}, ::Nothing=nothing, ::Int=dim(X))
 project(::LazySet, ::AbstractVector{Int}, ::Type{<:LazySet}, ::Int=dim(X))
 project(::LazySet, ::AbstractVector{Int}, ::Pair{<:UnionAll,<:Real}, ::Int=dim(X))
diff --git a/src/Interfaces/LazySet.jl b/src/Interfaces/LazySet.jl
index a5050303ba..6970bd4f78 100644
--- a/src/Interfaces/LazySet.jl
+++ b/src/Interfaces/LazySet.jl
@@ -1564,15 +1564,6 @@ function linear_map(M::AbstractMatrix, P::LazySet; kwargs...)
     end
 end
 
-"""
-    linear_map(a::Number, X::LazySet; kwargs...)
-
-Alias for `scale(a, X; kwargs...)`.
-"""
-function linear_map(a::Number, X::LazySet; kwargs...)
-    return scale(a, X; kwargs...)
-end
-
 """
 # Extended help
 
diff --git a/test/Sets/Interval.jl b/test/Sets/Interval.jl
index 21d9899d12..a02baf8340 100644
--- a/test/Sets/Interval.jl
+++ b/test/Sets/Interval.jl
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ for N in [Float64, Float32, Rational{Int}]
 
     # concrete linear map
     @test linear_map(hcat(N(2)...), x) == Interval(N(2) * x.dat)
-    # alias for scale
-    @test linear_map(N(2), x) == Interval(N(2) * x.dat)
 
     # concrete linear map with zonotope output
     M2 = hcat(N[1, 2, 3])