Season's Savings | ₹5/mo for 3 months

₹199/month after first 3 months. Renews automatically. Terms apply.
THE NATURE OF NUMBER: GAUSS AND THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS cover art

THE NATURE OF NUMBER: GAUSS AND THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS

 Preview
Get this deal Free with 30-day trial
Offer ends on 28 December, 2026.
Prime logo
Only ₹5/month for first 3 months.
Get 1 credit per month to use on any title of your choice.
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals.
₹199/month after first 3 months. Cancel anytime. Renews automatically. Offer ends 28 December, 2026.
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

THE NATURE OF NUMBER: GAUSS AND THE LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS

Written by: Boris Kriger, Anna Kriger
Narrated by: Gabe Berken
Free with 30-day trial Free with 30-day trial

₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹536.00

Buy Now for ₹536.00

About this listen
 He solved the problem of the missing planet in a few weeks, and told almost no one how. He worked out the geometry of curved space decades before anyone published it, and locked the pages in a drawer. He wrote his most explosive result about an asteroid as a coded cipher, so that he could claim it later without saying it now. Carl Friedrich Gauss, the bricklayer's son who became the Prince of Mathematicians, spent his life inventing two things: an extraordinary quantity of modern science, and a way of writing it down that removes every trace of how a human being got there.This book follows the second invention, because it is the one we all inherited. Along the way it takes in a duke who bought a boy's education, an asteroid that vanished behind the sun, ten summers of dragging survey instruments across a heath, the first electric telegraph strung over the rooftops of a university town, a magnetic needle that quietly buried a rival theory of the earth, and a young Hungarian whose life was broken by one polite letter. It also takes in an ordinary man: grieving, difficult, tender in the wrong places, counting the days of his friends' lives because he could not stop counting.Boris Kriger writes as a working researcher rather than a spectator, and where he disagrees with his subject he says so. In one chapter he takes an instrument Gauss invented in 1833 and left unpublished, and reports what it shows when applied to the largest structures in the universe. There is not a single equation in these pages. There is a great deal of arithmetic in them, all of it done in words.©2026 Boris Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet