Bibliograph

Measuring the world, Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

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Measuring the world, Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Measuring the world

Oclc number

64453483

Responsibility statement

Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Summary

Two very different scientists are about to meet at a conference in Berlin in 1828. The first is an exasperated curmudgeon named Carl Friedrich Gauss, a genius known "since his first youth as the Prince of Mathematics." At 21, he published a treatise on something called "number theory". He couldn't be more vexed about having to travel to the conference but "in a moment of weakness," he accepted an invitation from Alexander von Humboldt, whose famous travels around the world founded the field of biogeography

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