Editing 3-sphere (section)

==In literature==
In [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]]'s ''[[Flatland]]'', published in 1884, and in ''[[Sphereland]]'', a 1965 sequel to ''Flatland'' by [[Dionys Burger]], the 3-sphere is referred to as an '''oversphere''', and a 4-sphere is referred to as a '''hypersphere'''.

Writing in the ''[[American Journal of Physics]]'',<ref>{{cite journal|last=Peterson|first=Mark A.|title=Dante and the 3-sphere|url=http://link.aip.org/link/ajpias/v47/i12/p1031/s1|journal=American Journal of Physics|volume=47|number=12|date=1979|pages=1031–1035|doi=10.1119/1.11968|bibcode=1979AmJPh..47.1031P|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223083042/http://link.aip.org/link/ajpias/v47/i12/p1031/s1|archive-date=23 February 2013}}</ref> Mark A. Peterson describes three different ways of visualizing 3-spheres and points out language in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' that suggests [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] viewed the Universe in the same way; [[Carlo Rovelli]] supports the same idea.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rovelli|first=Carlo|title=General Relativity: The Essentials|date=9 September 2021|url={{GBurl|000_EAAAQBAJ|p=40}}|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-00-901369-7|access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref>

In ''Art Meets Mathematics in the Fourth Dimension'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lipscomb |first=Stephen |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319062532 |title=Art meets mathematics in the fourth dimension |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-06254-9 |edition=2 |location=Berlin |oclc=893872366}}</ref> Stephen L. Lipscomb develops the concept of the hypersphere dimensions as it relates to art, architecture, and mathematics.