Teaching mathematical fairy tales. Perelman Ya.

What could be more fascinating for an ordinary person about the relativity of space and time, a four -dimensional world, heavenly mechanics, equations and gigantic numbers? The answer is obvious - a huge mass of topics. But not when the storyteller is the famous popularizer of science Yakov Isidorovich Perelman.

And here is what the scientist himself wrote in the preface to the first edition of the book that glorified him: “In search of means to revive the wide circles of interest in mathematics, I had the idea to collect a number of works that interpret mathematical topics in a fiction or semi -ballet -license form, and offer them to the reader with appropriate comments. The number of such works, of course, is very limited. This explains the modest size of this collection... It can be hoped that this small collection will put on other readers to more serious thoughts and will prompt the systematic familiarization with one or another section of mathematics. kind ".

for a wide range of readers.