Hopf Fibration S³ → S²

The Hopf fibration maps S³ (3-sphere) to S² (2-sphere) with fiber circles S¹. Each point on S² corresponds to a great circle on S³. Under stereographic projection to ℝ³, these fibers appear as linked tori — any two fibers are Hopf-linked (linking number 1).

Latitude φ = 0°
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