Isoperimetric dimension
In mathematics, the isoperimetric dimension of a manifold is a notion of dimension that tries to capture how the large-scale behavior of the manifold resembles that of a Euclidean space (unlike the topological dimension or the Hausdorff dimension which compare different local behaviors against those of the Euclidean space). In the Euclidean space, the isoperimetric inequality says that of all bodies with the same volume, the ball has the smallest surface area.