Hypersphere
For spheres in hyperspace, see n-sphere.
In geometry of higher dimensions, a hypersphere is the set of points at a constant distance from a given point called its centre.
It is a manifold of codimension one—that is, with one dimension less than that of the ambient space.
As the hypersphere's radius increases, its curvature decreases.
In the limit, a hypersphere approaches the zero curvature of a hyperplane.
Hyperplanes and hyperspheres are examples of hypersurfaces.
The term hypersphere was introduced by Duncan Sommerville in his 1914 discussion of models for non-Euclidean geometry.
The first one mentioned is a 3-sphere in four dimensions.
Some spheres are not hyperspheres: If S is a sphere in E where m < n, and the space has n dimensions, then S is not a hypersphere.
Similarly, any n-sphere in a proper flat is not a hypersphere.
For example, a circle is not a hypersphere in three-dimensional space, but it is a hypersphere in the plane.
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