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The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Gottingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.From the Hardcover edition.
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Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Scientists, fiction, Fiction, biographical, German fiction, OUR Brockhaus selection, German language materials, 18.09 German literature, Romans, nouvelles, Duan pian xiao shuo, Fiction, historical, Biographical fiction, Intellectual life, Belletristische Darstellung, Gauß, Carl Friedrich, Mathematicians, Explorers, German Historical fictionShowing 10 featured editions. View all 27 editions?
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Die Vermessung der Welt: Roman
2009, Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verl.
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2005, Rowohlt, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Gmb
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"Im September 1828 verließ der größte Mathematiker des Landes zum erstenmal seit Jahren seine Heimatstadt, um am Deutschen Naturforscherkongreß in Berlin teilzunehmen."
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