Measuring the World: Gauß and Humboldt

Audiobook (CD): Daniel Kehlmann: Die Vermessung der Welt (2005, engl.: Measuring the World). Read in German by Ulrich Matthes. 5 CDs, ca. 345 min. Narrates and compares the biographies of two contemporaries, the natural philosopher Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician Carl Friedrich von Gauß. "This is the history of two scientists who could not be more different, but who both have the goal to understand the world". Not comprehensive biographies, but nicely narrated with some hidden treasures. Overall rating 7 out of 10.