Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-
Measuring the world / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
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.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Fiction.
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855 -- Fiction.
Janeway, Carol Brown.