Book:Joan Gómez Urgellés/When Straight Lines become Curves
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Joan Gómez Urgellés: When Straight Lines become Curves: Non-Euclidean geometry
Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic
- ISBN 978-84-473-8767-0
National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $4$
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. A Taxi Ride
- Chapter 2. Euclidean Geometry
- Chapter 3. Competing with Euclid
- Chapter 4. The Establishment of Non-Euclidean Geometry
- Chapter 5. The Surprising Results of Hyperbolic Geometry
- Chapter 6. Contributions to Elliptical Geometry
- Chapter 7. Geometry of the Earth
- Chapter 8. Geometry in the $21$st Century
- Appendix: The Theory of Relativity and the New Geometries
- Bibliography
- Index