Measuring the World

丹尼尔• 凯曼（Daniel Kehlmann）德国当代作家，评论家。1975年出生于慕尼黑。后考入维也纳大学，攻读哲学与德国文学。1997年出版第一本小说《贝尔宏姆的想象》。2003年，小说《我与康明斯基》为他赢得世界声誉。2005年，刚满30岁的他出版《丈量世界》，被译为40多种语言，销量突破200万册，被誉为二战后德语文学最伟大的成就之一。2008年获托马斯•曼奖。

出版者:Pantheon

作者:Daniel Kehlmann

页数:259

译者:Carol Brown Janeway

出版时间:2006-11-7

价格:USD 23.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780375424465

图书标签:小说DanielKehlmann畅销小说数学外国文学measuringtheworld英文美国

Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and measure "every river, every mountain and every lake in his path." Gauss is the hedgehog to Humboldt's fox, leaping out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a formula and rarely leaving his hometown of Göttingen. The two meet at a scientific congress in 1828, when Germany is in turmoil after the fall of Napoleon. Other luminaries appear throughout the novel, including a senile Immanuel Kant, Louis Daguerre and Thomas Jefferson. The narrative is notable for its brisk pacing, lively prose and wry humor (curmudgeonly Gauss laments, for instance, how "every idiot would be able to... invent the most complete nonsense" about him 200 years hence), which keenly complements Kehlmann's intelligent, if not especially deep, treatment of science, mathematics and reason at the end of the Enlightenment.

读后感

对于这个世界（包含宇宙），究竟我们是以何种方式去理解它？十九世纪，做为解释、理解这个世界的工具，科学终于取代神学。 　　 　　以亚历山大．封．洪堡（Alexander von Humboldt，1768-1859）和数学家暨天文学家卡尔．费德烈．高斯（Carl Friedrich Gau?, 1777- 1855）为...  

看到十几页我才突然意识到，这个高斯就是那个著名的高斯，高斯定律是在中学还是大学里学到的？我已经记不清了，更别说定律的内容。这对于一个已经工作了将近二十年的工科生来说，除了证明整个教育体系的失败以及就业市场的残酷外，也稍稍打击了一下我对自己智商的自信。因为让...  

当我拿到这本书的时候，我首先想到的是我可能要花很长很长的时间才能将其读完，或者根本就读不完。之前买来读书经常发生这样的事，我也已经习以为常。书的封面设计很枯燥很学术，整片的深蓝色上画着一圈圈等高线，看完后才知道那也许是洪堡的杰作吧，新书买来我总是习惯...  

对于这个世界（包含宇宙），究竟我们是以何种方式去理解它？十九世纪，做为解释、理解这个世界的工具，科学终于取代神学。 　　 　　以亚历山大．封．洪堡（Alexander von Humboldt，1768-1859）和数学家暨天文学家卡尔．费德烈．高斯（Carl Friedrich Gau?, 1777- 1855）为...  

自从人类进化为有思维能力的智人，思考就成了人类最好的朋友，并且被认为是人类有别并且优于其他生物的原因。人类似乎无论何时也不会停止自己思考的脚步，且从中找到了真正的乐趣，而《丈量世界》的作者就从两位天才的奋斗过程中为我们思辨的展现了人类思考的历程。 故事总要从...  

用户评价

First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.

German romanticism is awaken by the hypothesis - what if basic ideas shaped our nowadays world is more derived from personal fever when science was deemed as a 'cult' rather than logical inevitabilities proclaimed&verified by its overwhelming effectiveness afterwards? Then, how should we weigh those people bearing contradictory ideas to their age?

Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society

German romanticism is awaken by the hypothesis - what if basic ideas shaped our nowadays world is more derived from personal fever when science was deemed as a 'cult' rather than logical inevitabilities proclaimed&verified by its overwhelming effectiveness afterwards? Then, how should we weigh those people bearing contradictory ideas to their age?

German romanticism is awaken by the hypothesis - what if basic ideas shaped our nowadays world is more derived from personal fever when science was deemed as a 'cult' rather than logical inevitabilities proclaimed&verified by its overwhelming effectiveness afterwards? Then, how should we weigh those people bearing contradictory ideas to their age?