Cuando las rectas se vuelven curvas

Synopsis of Cuando las rectas se vuelven curvas

«Cuando las rectas se vuelven curvas» is the popular science essay by Joan Gómez Urgellés on non-Euclidean geometries, in hardback (151 pages, in Spanish).

It starts from Euclid's principles to explain non-Euclidean geometries, where straight lines curve and space is no longer unique. It covers the contributions of Lobachevski, Bolyai and Riemann and ends with integral and computational geometry, with applications such as computer-aided design, magnetic resonance imaging or GPS.

Fourth volume in the collection El mundo es matemático, published by RBA Coleccionables in 2011.

For non-specialist readers who want to get started in modern geometry and its applications.