Measuring the World

Resumen del libro

"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 Gottingen 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Daniel Kehlmann x{0026}lt;/B (Munich, 1975) es doctor en Filología germánica. Su obra ha recibido prestigiosos galardones, como el Premio de Literatura de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer, el Kleist, el Candide, el Thomas Mann y el Frank-Schirrmacher, entre otros. Su novela x{0026}lt;I La medición del mundox{0026}lt;/I (de próxima publicación en Random House) ha sido traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas. Entre sus otros títulos publicados cabe destacar x{0026}lt;I Yo y Kaminskix{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Famax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Fx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Tyllx{0026}lt;/I , estas dos última publicadas en Random House. Actualmente, Daniel Kehlmann es profesor en la Universidad de Nueva York. x{0026}lt;I Deberías haberte idox{0026}lt;/I es su último libro.x{0026}lt;/P