Yakov Perelman. Doctor of Entertaining Sciences. Mishkevich G.

“The singer of mathematics, a bard of physics, the poet of astronomy, the herald of astronautics - this was and remained in the memory of Yakov Isidorovich Perelman, whose books spread around the world in millions of copies. The name of this wonderful person is associated with the emergence and development of a special - entertaining - genre of scientific popularization of the basics of knowledge. The author of more than a hundred books, including “Entertaining Mathematics”, “Entertaining Astronomy”, “Entertaining Physics”, “Puzzles and Tasks” and MN. etc., he possessed a rare gift excitingly interestingly to talk about dry scientific truths, to excite burning curiosity and curiosity - these first steps of independent work of the mind, ”wrote about Y. I. Perelman twice laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, twice Hero of Socialist Labor Academician V. P. Glushko.

The author himself collaborated with Perelman for a number of years, and working on the book, used archival materials, literary sources and memories of those who knew Yakov Isidorovich.