This like-new hardcover is near fine, no marks, pages are tight and unmarked, the book is tight, square, and unmarked. The dust jacket is unmarked, blue cloth boards, and white lettering on the spine of the book. Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World) is a 2005 novel by Daniel Kehlmann that presents a fictionalized and satirical account of two renowned 19th-century German scientists: naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The narrative contrasts their distinct methods of understanding the world—Humboldt through ambitious expeditions and Gauss through abstract theoretical work—while shedding light on their eccentric personalities and the intellectual climate of their era. The novel was a major success, selling over 2.3 million copies in Germany by 2012, and was adapted into a feature film that same year.