Midiendo el mundo
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Nota del editor La novela de Daniel Kehlmann de 2005 avanza con dos vidas en paralelo: Alexander von Humboldt, que en su expedición americana de 1799 a 1804 sube volcanes y remonta el Orinoco, y Carl Friedrich Gauss, que apenas sale de Gotinga y mide el mundo con las matemáticas. Los dos se encuentran por fin en Berlín en 1828, dos celebridades envejecidas con poca paciencia el uno para el otro. Contada casi entera en estilo indirecto y con ironía seca, se convirtió en una de las novelas alemanas más vendidas desde la guerra; Detlev Buck la llevó al cine en 2012.
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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.