"For physics students and science buffs alike, this clever and easy-to-read elementary physics handbook, recently mentioned in a New Yorker article, was a bestseller in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.This book appeals to bright inquisitive minds and gives answers to basic questions about physics. The fundamentals of mechanics, force, work, friction, rotation, gravitation, and more are presented with timeless charm. Instructive and witty, ..."
Figures for Fun Stories and Conundrums by YakovPerelman Published 1987 by Burns & Oates ISBN-13: 978-0-8044-6632-5, ISBN: 0-8044-6632-7
Figures for Fun Stories, Puzzles and Conundrums by YakovPerelman 144 Pages, Published 2015 by Courier Dover Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-486-80345-6, ISBN: 0-486-80345-7
"This is a great book for anyone who is looking for a challenge and, if you get too stuck, the author kindly also provided the answers at the end of each chapter!" — Splashes Into Books Give your mind a playful workout with this collection ..."
"This book helps you reaching this objective using many instructive and entertaining experiments. These are simple enough to be carried out using everyday objects at home or around it."
"Astronomy is a fortunate science; it needs no embellishments, said the French savant Arago. So fascinating are its achievements that no special effort is needed to attract attention. Nonetheless, the science of the heavens is not only a collection of astonishing revelations and daring theories. Ordinary facts, things that happen, day by day, are its substance. Most laymen have, generally speaking, a rather hazy notion of this prosai ..."
Figures for Fun by YakovPerelman Paperback, 183 Pages, Published 1979 by Imported Pubn ISBN-13: 978-0-8285-1512-2, ISBN: 0-8285-1512-3
""Does your brain need a workout? Are you wondering what to do? Well this could be the book for you! This is a great book for anyone who is looking for a challenge and, if you get too stuck, the author kindly also provided the answers at the end of each chapter!" — Splashes Into BooksGive your mind a playful workout with this collection of more than 100 inventive puzzles. Finding the solutions requires only minimal mathematical knowledge ..."
"Yakov Perelman. ments or striking examples he shows the main conclusions to
he drawn from those facts and arouses in the mind of the thinking reader over
newar questions. ... In ll the 25 years it has been in existence the book has
undergone constant revision, its latest edit ion having barely half of the maiden
copy and ..."
"Yakov Perelman. Physics. for. Entertainment. By. Yakov. Perelman. Published in
1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment
was ... Yakov Isidorovich Perelman died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942."
"Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincare conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori's father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for ..."
"Physics For Entertainment by Yakov Perelman. Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincar conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori's father, ..."
Geometria Recreativa (Spanish Edition) by YakovPerelman Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5197-6004-3, ISBN: 1-5197-6004-3
"Yakov Isidorovich Perelman fue un divulgador de la fisica, las matematicas y la astronomia, uno de los fundadores del genero de la literatura de ciencia popular.""
Sabe usted de Fisica (Spanish Edition) by YakovPerelman Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5197-6063-0, ISBN: 1-5197-6063-9
"Yakov Isidorovich Perelman fue un divulgador de la fisica, las matematicas y la astronomia, uno de los fundadores del genero de la literatura de ciencia popular.""