An edition of Die Vermessung der Welt (2005)

Measuring the world

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An edition of Die Vermessung der Welt (2005)

Measuring the world

1st American ed.
  • 3.50 ·
  • 8 Ratings
  • 68 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 13 Have read

At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Alexander von Humboldt journeys to unexplored regions of the planet, and Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English
Pages
259

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Zhang liang shi jie
2007, Shang zhou chu ban
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Measuring the world
2006, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st American ed.
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Measuring the world
2006, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st American ed
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Measuring the world
2006, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st American ed.
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Die Vermessung der Welt: Roman
2005, Rowohlt, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Gmb
in German
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Die Vermessung der Welt
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.914
Library of Congress
PT2671.E32 V4713 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
259 p. ;
Number of pages
259

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24742384M
Internet Archive
measuringworld00kehl
ISBN 10
0375424466
ISBN 13
9780375424465
LCCN
2006040480
OCLC/WorldCat
64453483

Work Description

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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