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DANIEL KEHLMANN - GEBRAUCHT MEASURING THE WORLD...

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 Göttingen 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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