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Measuring the world
- Title
- Measuring the world / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
- Author
- Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PT2671.E32 V4713 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Janeway, Carol Brown.
- Description
- 259 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Vermessung der Welt. English
- Alternative Title
- Vermessung der Welt.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Mathematical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- ISBN
- 0375424466
- 9780375424465
- LCCN
- 2006040480
- 9780375424465
- OCLC
- ocm64453483
- 64453483
- SCSB-9564763
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library