What is the distribution of $aX$ when $X$ is Gumbel? What is the distribution of $-X$ when $X$ is Gumbel?

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If $X$ is a random variable distributed as a Gumbel with location $\gamma$ and scale $1$ (where $\gamma$ is the Euler constant)

[Hence the mean is $$ \gamma-1\times\gamma=0 $$ and the variance is $$ \pi^2/6\times 1^2=\pi^2/6 $$]

(1) What is the distribution of $aX$ where $a\in \mathbb{R}$? $a$ should be $>0$?

(2) What is the distribution of $-X$?

I don't know if it is relevant, but here I'm using the definition of Gumbel as in Mathworld and Matlab (sign flipped with respect to the definition of Gumbel in Wikipedia)

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Still a Gumbel distribution.

As with Normal distributions, the family of Gumbel distributions includes all pdfs of the form $|\beta|^{-1}f\left(\frac{x-\mu}{\beta}\right)$, where $f$ is in the family. So $X\mapsto aX$ just scales $\beta$ to $a\beta$, including in the case $a=-1$.