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Yakov Perelman

1882 - 1942

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Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (Russian: Яков Исидорович Перельман; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1882 – 16 March 1942) was a Russian and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science books, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Yakov Perelman is the 3,195th most popular writer (down from 3,166th in 2024), the 693rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 696th in 2019) and the 70th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among writers, Yakov Perelman ranks 3,195 out of 7,302. Before her are Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Hamnet Shakespeare, Amos Tutuola, Gunnar Ekelöf, Phylarchus, and Kosta Khetagurov. After her are Géza Gárdonyi, Vincent Voiture, Henry Darger, René Huyghe, Janosch, and Macropedius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Yakov Perelman ranks 144. Before her are Noah Beery, N. C. Wyeth, Karl Rapp, José Vasconcelos, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Oldřich Duras. After her are Arnold Rothstein, Karl Valentin, Kazimierz Bartel, Monteiro Lobato, Louis Pergaud, and Holland Smith. Among people deceased in 1942, Yakov Perelman ranks 126. Before her are Ants Piip, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Alexey Troitsky, Francis Younghusband, Léon Daudet, and Eusebio Ayala. After her are Sébastien Faure, Emma Calvé, Olena Teliha, Georgios Orphanidis, Heinrich Burger, and Mordechai Gebirtig.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Yakov Perelman ranks 693 out of 1,694. Before her are Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk (1884), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro (1926), Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), Peter van Eyck (1911), Olga Desmond (1890), and Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765). After her are Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Ursula Happe (1926), Józef Szmidt (1935), Friedrich Gilly (1772), and Matthias Habich (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Yakov Perelman ranks 70. Before her are Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Marcin Bielski (1495), and Bronisława Wajs (1908). After her are Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Rutka Laskier (1929), Maria Dąbrowska (1889), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), and Salomėja Nėris (1904).

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