Algebraic variety
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The unit sphere is an algebraic variety over the real numbers because it is the set of all points satisfying the polynomial equation x2 + y2 +z2 -1 = 0.
An algebraic variety V over a ring K is defined as the set of all points in K satisfying a system of polynomial equations with coefficients in K.