{"product_id":"physics-for-entertainment-joe-henry-mitchell-9781452864471","title":"Physics For Entertainment","description":"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, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son's interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book's author describes the contents as \"conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,\" adding, \"I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.\" The book's topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, \"according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.\" Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today. Yakov Isidorovich Perelman died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Henry Mitchell, Yakov Perelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1452864470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781452864471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.45d","brand":"Joe Henry Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980407275775,"sku":"9781452864471","price":19.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c10c6444-5490-4997-a530-c8f2b64505d3.jpg?v=1683249746","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/physics-for-entertainment-joe-henry-mitchell-9781452864471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}