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Measuring the world

โœ Scribed by Gauss, Carl Friedrich;Humboldt, Alexander von;Janeway, Carol Brown;Kehlmann, Daniel

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
164 KB
Edition
1st Vintage books ed
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0307277399

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โœฆ Synopsis

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.

โœฆ Subjects

Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859

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