Denis Guedj Books
The measure of the world
By Denis Guedj
"On June 24, 1792, two large traveling coaches left the Tuileries, one headed to Dunkirk, the other to Barcelona. They carried the astronomers Pierre Mechain and Jean-Baptiste Delambre, who had bee...
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By Denis Guedj
"When Mr. Ruche, a reclusive Parisian bookseller, receives a letter from a long lost friend in the Amazon bequesting him a vast library of mathematical books, he is propelled into a great explorati...
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