Measuring The World
''Measuring the World'' () is a novel by German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt—who was accompanied on his journeys by French explorer Aimé Bonpland—and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and Humboldt's meeting with Gauss in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between Gauss and his son Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father decreed that he study law. The book was a bestseller; by 2012, it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone. A Measuring the World (film), film version directed by Detlev Buck was released in 2012. Translations The English translation is by Carol Brown Janeway (November 2006). Rosa Pilar Blanco translated the book into Spanish language, Spanish. References Ex ...
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Interview with Kehlmann
in the ''Tagesspiegel''. His novel ''Die Vermessung der Welt'' (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as '' Measuring the World'', 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's '' Perfum ...
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