Measuring the World - Softcover

Kehlmann, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184724114X ISBN 13: 9781847241146

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2007

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'A dazzling success ... Fantastically imagined' Daily Telegraph. (Daily Telegraph)

'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here for once is a popular hit as sophisticated as it is engaging' Sunday Times. (Sunday Times)

'Nothing less than a literary sensation' Guardian. (Guardian)

'This is a masterpiece' Independent on Sunday. (Independent on Sunday)

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Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognised as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home in Goettingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Measuring the World is a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterization. It brings the two eccentric geniuses to life, their longings and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success.

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• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 184724114X
• ISBN 13: 9781847241146
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272