Solution

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The sphere is the inverse image of under the continuous map , so it is closed in . It is bounded. The Heine-Borel theorem therefore makes it compact. Every metric space is Hausdorff: distinct points have disjoint open balls of radii smaller than half their distance. The Euclidean subspace metric supplies that property here. Hence is compact and Hausdorff.

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