The above picture shows how the fibres of the Hopf fibration are linked inside the three sphere. This is from an outstanding example of Heinz Hopf, where he showed that pi three of the two dimensional sphere is non-trivial!
The above picture shows how the fibres of the Hopf fibration are linked inside the three sphere. This is from an outstanding example of Heinz Hopf, where he showed that pi three of the two dimensional sphere is non-trivial!
Northeastern University Department of Mathematics