Film Die Vermessung der Welt - Measuring the World

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Their childhoods couldn’t have been more different: Alexander von Humboldt, born into a noble family, had the best private tutors in Berlin, a wealthy and prestigious family home and the protection of the powerful. Carl Friedrich Gauß grew up in poverty, was beaten by his classmates and teachers and then, once his mathematical talents could no longer be overlooked, he received a scholarship from the Duke of Brunswick. The fact that Alexander von Humboldt is drawn to distant worlds, while Gauß wants a safe and secure home where he can pursue his research, is no less plausibly explained by the different childhoods and early years of the two scientists, as by their almost contradictory talents which have a common denominator: boundless curiosity.


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