Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German-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,[1] as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and Humboldt's meeting with Gauss in 1828.

The book was a bestseller; by 2012, it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone.

[2] A film version directed by Detlev Buck was released in 2012.

[3] The English translation is by Carol Brown Janeway (November 2006).