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Measuring the World

by Daniel Kehlmann
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Parallel lives of two geniuses brilliantly contrasted.

Measuring the World would be a good read for anyone who enjoys a mix of biography and fiction. The unique feature of this book is how Kehlmann combines two seemingly different disciplines - mathematics and naturalism - and creates a fascinating narrative. Readers will appreciate the charming and humorous storytelling, as well as the depth of characterisation that Kehlmann affords to both Humboldt and Gauss.

  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2007)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2008)
  • PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Carol Brown Janeway (2007)
  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Shortlist (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Measuring the World

by Daniel Kehlmann
Compare to estimated retail price: RM54.00 MYR  

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ISBN: 9781847241146
Authors: Daniel Kehlmann
Publisher: riverrun
Date of Publication: 2007-10-04
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.73
(rated by 18640 readers)

Description

At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe, navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man.Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the other hand, stayed at home, using the power of thought to battle his way into exotic mathematical realms and the landmark realization that space is curved.Addictively readable and slyly humorous, Measuring the World bends time and space to bring these two enlightenment geniuses to life, their longings and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success.
 

Parallel lives of two geniuses brilliantly contrasted.

Measuring the World would be a good read for anyone who enjoys a mix of biography and fiction. The unique feature of this book is how Kehlmann combines two seemingly different disciplines - mathematics and naturalism - and creates a fascinating narrative. Readers will appreciate the charming and humorous storytelling, as well as the depth of characterisation that Kehlmann affords to both Humboldt and Gauss.

  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2007)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2008)
  • PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Carol Brown Janeway (2007)
  • Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Shortlist (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.