Considering what I have just written about Juli Zhe, I had to double-check the nationality of Kehlmann, and decided that I'll consider him Austrian and not German for the sake of my coherence (though I wonder how he feels, considering his upbringing between the two countries?).
This is a book that was suggested to me by a former basketball teammate of mine, and I read it with fairly low expectations. And my fairly low expectations were ultimately met. Yes, the book is well-written and the stories of Humboldt and Gauss are interesting and fascinating. However, I already knew a bit about them, and I guess that bit was enough.
Still, I'll probably give it to one of my relatives who often talks about a young Gauss discovering the formula to calculate the sum of consecutive positive integer numbers.
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