Measuring the World (film)

Last updated
el mundo de tilin super masivo
Measuring the World (film) poster.jpg
Film poster
German Die Vermessung der Welt
Directed by Detlev Buck
Starring Florian David Fitz
Albrecht Schuch
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (Germany)
Release date
  • 25 October 2012 (2012-10-25)
Running time
119 minutes
CountriesGermany
Austria
LanguageGerman

Measuring the World (German : Die Vermessung der Welt) is a 2012 German / Austrian 3D film based on the eponymous novel by Daniel Kehlmann. [1] [2]

Contents

Cast

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Friedrich Gauss</span> German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, geodesist, and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Gauss ranks among history's most influential mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Prince of Mathematicians". He was director of the Göttingen Observatory and professor at the university for nearly half a century, from 1807 until his death in 1855.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilhelm von Humboldt</span> Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander von Humboldt</span> Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet</span> German mathematician (1805–1859)

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who made contributions to number theory, and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dita Von Teese</span> American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman

Heather Renée Sweet, known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Humboldt University of Berlin</span> Public university in Berlin, Germany

The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

The year 1808 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gotthold Eisenstein</span> German mathematician (1823–1852)

Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein was a German mathematician. He specialized in number theory and analysis, and proved several results that eluded even Gauss. Like Galois and Abel before him, Eisenstein died before the age of 30. He was born and died in Berlin, Prussia.

<i>Gauss</i> (ship) German polar exploration vessel

Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased by Canada in 1904, the vessel was renamed CGS Arctic. As Arctic, the vessel made annual trips to the Canadian Arctic until 1925. The ship's fate is disputed among the sources, but all claim that by the mid-1920s, the vessel was out of service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel Kehlmann</span> German-language novelist

Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.

<i>Measuring the World</i> 2005 novel by Daniel Kehlmann

Measuring the World is a novel by Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt—who was accompanied on his journeys by French explorer Aimé Bonpland—and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between Gauss and his son Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father decreed that he study law. The book was a bestseller; by 2012 it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander von Humboldt Foundation</span> International academic organization

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from Germany and from abroad. It was established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and is funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as other national and international partners.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities</span> Academy of science in Germany

The Göttingen Academy of Sciences is the oldest continuously existing institution among the eight scientific academies in Germany, which are united under the umbrella of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. It has the task of promoting research under its own auspices and in collaboration with academics in and outside Germany. It has its seat in the university town of Göttingen. Its meeting room is located in the auditorium of the University of Göttingen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrea Wulf</span> German-British historian and writer

Andrea Wulf is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

Jörg Rüpke is a German scholar of comparative religion and classical philology, recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2008, and of the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2011. In January 2012, Rüpke was appointed by German Federal President Christian Wulff to the German Council of Science and Humanities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg</span> Building in the University of Strasbourg, former seat of the Council of Europe

The Palais Universitaire in Strasbourg is a large, neo-Renaissance style building, constructed between 1879 and 1884 under the direction of the German architect Otto Warth. It was inaugurated in 1884 by Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. Through Avenue de la Liberté, it faces the equally monumental former imperial palace (Kaiserpalast).

<i>The Invention of Nature</i> 2015 biography of Alexander von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World is a nonfiction book released in 2015, by the historian Andrea Wulf about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The book follows Humboldt from his early childhood and travels through Europe as a young man to his journey through Latin America and his return to Europe. Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesized knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public.

Elizabeth Juliana Leeves was an English scientist who assisted her husband Sir Edward Sabine in his scientific work and translated important scientific works from German into English.

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an academic prize named after Alexander von Humboldt and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2008. The prize is intended to attract internationally leading scientists from abroad to Germany so that they can carry out top-level research there and strengthen Germany as a research location. The prize includes a permanent full professorship at the hosting university, plus 5 million euros for experimentally working scientists or 3.5 million euros for theoretically working scientists. This makes it the most highly endowed research prize in Germany, and possibly world-wide. A maximum of ten Alexander von Humboldt Professorships can be awarded every year to researchers of all disciplines. From 2020 to 2024, an additional six Humboldt Professorships in the field of artificial intelligence can be awarded each year.

References

  1. Roxborough, Scott (2011-11-04). "'Measuring The World' Film Gets Funding Boost". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  2. Horn, Andrew (2012-02-18). "Humor and science mix in 3D pic". Variety . Retrieved 2018-08-11.