I whanau a Perelman i te tau 1882 i te taone o Białystok, Congress Poland. I whiwhi ia i te Tiipiri i te Imperial Forestry Institute (I tenei wa ko Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University) i Saint Petersburg, i te tau 1909. I whakaaweahia ia e Ernst Mach me te Russian Machist Alexander Bogdanov i roto i tana huarahi whakaako ki te whakatipu i te putaiao. I muri i te angitu o "Physics for Entertainment", i timata a Perelman ki te whakaputa i etahi atu pukapuka, i roto i a ia e whakaatu ana i a ia ano he kaiwhakangungu whakaaro mo te putaiao. He tino rongonui ko "Arithmetic for entertainment", "Mechanics for entertainment", "Geometry for Entertainment", "Astronomy for entertainment", "Lively Mathematics", "Physics Everywhere", me "Tricks and Amusements". Pātai: I te wa i whiwhi ai a Perelman i te tiipiri?
Ko te tau 1909