Measuring the World

A film adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s novel: In the early 19th century, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss set out to explore the world. But although they share the same goal, their methods could hardly be more different: While Humboldt, the naturalist, travels to distant lands and continents to survey the world, Gauss, the mathematician, stays at home to calculate it.
Director: Detlev Buck
Germany 2012
DVD, 119 min