Measuring the World

A Novel

259 pages

English language

Published Sept. 8, 2006

ISBN:
978-0-375-42446-5
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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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