Kehlmann, Daniel

Measuring the world Die Vermessung der Welt - New York Vintage Books ©2006 - 259 p 21/13,5/1,5 cm Paperback

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.

IB

9780307277398

Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859 -- Fiction Gauss, Carl Friedrich


HF (Historical Fiction)