Measuring the world
By: Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway
Contributors: Janeway, Carol Brown
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780375424465
Subjects: Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Fiction; Gauss, Carl Friedrich, -- 1777-1855 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Vermessung der Welt.
Description: 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.