If is invertible, sends the ellipsoid to the unit sphere. On , the two stereographic projections and omit opposite poles and have inverses , with the sign chosen for the appropriate pole. Their overlap transition is , smooth and involutive on . Composing their inverses with gives a two-chart smooth atlas of the ellipsoid. Its subspace topology is Hausdorff and has a second-countable space topology, so it is a smooth manifold. For the overlap is empty and each chart is a point.
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