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The '''''Course of Theoretical Physics''''' is a ten-volume series of books covering [[theoretical physics]] that was initiated by [[Lev Landau]] and written in collaboration with his student [[Evgeny Lifshitz]] starting in the late 1930s.
It is said that Landau composed much of the series in his head while in an [[NKVD]] prison in
{{cite book
|author-first=Richard |author-last=Rhodes
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|title=Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]
|page=33
}}</ref> However, almost all of the actual writing of the early volumes was done by Lifshitz, giving rise to the witticism, "not a word of Landau and not a thought of Lifshitz".<ref>
{{cite
|author-first=Anton Z. |author-last=Capri
|
|title=From Quanta to Quarks: More Anecdotal History of Physics
|publisher=[[World Scientific]]
|page=112
}}</ref> The first eight volumes were finished in the 1950s, written in [[Russian language|Russian]] and translated into [[English language|English]] in the late 1950s by [[John Stewart Bell]], together with John Bradbury Sykes, M. J. Kearsley, and W. H. Reid. The last two volumes were written in the early 1980s. {{ill|Vladimir Berestetskii|ru|Берестецкий, Владимир Борисович}} and [[Lev Pitaevskii]] also contributed to the series. The series is often referred to as "'''Landau and Lifshitz'''", "'''Landafshitz'''" (Russian: "Ландафшиц"),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://written.ru/articles/notes/simplicity |script-title=ru:О простоте |date=2006-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://zlo.rt.mipt.ru/?read=7096295 |script-title=ru:Форум-ФРТК-МФТИ: чем ландафшиц не понравился? |language=ru |date=2011-02-18 |access-date=2012-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803090235/http://zlo.rt.mipt.ru/?read=7096295 |archive-date=2017-08-03 |url-status=dead}}</ref> or "'''Lanlifshitz'''" (Russian: "Ланлифшиц") in informal settings.
==Impact==
The presentation of material is advanced and typically considered suitable for [[Graduate school|graduate-level]] study.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/booklist.html |title=A Physics Book List |website=math.ucr.edu |access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |author-last=Aboites |author-first=Vicente |date=2005-11-01 |title=Feynman: The Lectures and the Man |journal=[[Physics Today]] |volume=58 |issue=11 |pages=12 |doi=10.1063/1.4796780 |issn=0031-9228}}</ref> Despite this specialized character, it is estimated that a million volumes of the ''Course'' were sold by 2005.<ref name=":1"/>
The series has been called "renowned" in [[Science (journal)|''Science'']] and "celebrated" in ''[[American Scientist]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |author-last=Livingston |author-first=Katherine |date=1990-08-03 |title=Book reviews |journal=Science |language=en |volume=249 |issue=4968 |pages=571–572 |doi=10.1126/science.249.4968.571 |issn=0036-8075 |pmid=17735292 |bibcode=1990Sci...249..571C}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Reviews_Landau_Lifshitz.html |title=Landau and Lifshitz reviews
In 1962, Landau and Lifshitz were awarded the [[Lenin Prize]] for their work on the ''Course''. This was the first occasion on which the Lenin Prize had been awarded for the teaching of physics.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqqQ8pTdxfEC&pg=PA253 |title=Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives |author-last=Hall |author-first=Karl |date=2005 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=
==English editions==
[[File:Seattle Urban Hike - Physics Books at University of Washington Book Store (1797565938).jpg|thumb|Course of Theoretical Physics]]
The following list does not include reprints and revised editions.
=== Volume 1 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|
|title=Mechanics
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|asin=B0006AWV88
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1969
|title=Mechanics
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-201-04146-0
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1976
|title=Mechanics
|edition=3rd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2896-9
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=== Volume 2 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|date=1951
|title=The Classical Theory of Fields
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Addison-Wesley]]
|asin=B0007G5B42
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1959
|title=The Classical Theory of Fields
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1971
|title=The Classical Theory of Fields
|edition=3rd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-08-016019-1
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1975
|title=The Classical Theory of Fields
|edition=4th |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2768-9
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=== Volume 3 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|
|title=Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1965
|title=Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1977
|title=Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory
|edition=3rd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-08-020940-1
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=== Volume 4 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Vladimir B. |author-last1=Berestetskii |author-link1=Vladimir Berestetskii
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|author-first3=Lev P. |author-last3=Pitaevskii |author-link3=Lev Pitaevskii
|date=1971
|title=Relativistic Quantum Theory
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-08-017175-3
}}
**{{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|author-first3=Lev P. |author-last3=Pitaevskii |author-link3=Lev Pitaevskii
|date=1982
|title=Quantum Electrodynamics
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-3371-0
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The original edition comprised two books, labelled part 1 and part 2. The first covered general aspects of [[relativistic quantum mechanics]] and relativistic [[quantum field theory]], leading onto [[quantum electrodynamics]]. The second continued with quantum electrodynamics and what was then known about the [[strong interaction|strong]] and [[weak interaction]]s. These books were published in the early 1970s, at a time when the strong and weak forces were still not well understood. In the second edition, the corresponding sections were scrapped and replaced with more topics in the well-established quantum electrodynamics, and the two parts were unified into one, thus providing a one-volume exposition on relativistic quantum field theory with the electromagnetic interaction as the prototype of a quantum field theory.
=== Volume 5 ===
* {{cite book
|date=1951
|title=Statistical Physics
|edition=1st |volume=
}}
** Early version: {{cite book
|author-first=
|
|title=Statistical Physics
|publisher=[[Clarendon Press]]
|asin=B00085BKZG
}}
** {{cite book
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|title=Statistical Physics
|edition=2nd |volume=
}}
** {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1980
|title=Statistical Physics
|edition=3rd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-3372-7
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=== Volume 6 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|
|title=Fluid Mechanics
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-08-009104-4
}}
* {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1987
|title=Fluid Mechanics
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-08-033933-7
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=== Volume 7 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|
|title=Theory of Elasticity
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
}}
* {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1970
|title=Theory of Elasticity
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-08-006465-9
}}
* {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|date=1986
|title=Theory of Elasticity
|edition=3rd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2633-0
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=== Volume 8 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Lev D. |author-last1=Landau |author-link1=Lev Landau
|author-first2=
|
|title=Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=
}}
* {{cite book
|author-first1=
|author-first2=Evgeny M. |author-last2=Lifshitz |author-link2=Evgeny Lifshitz
|author-first3=Lev P. |author-last3=Pitaevskii |author-link3=Lev Pitaevskii
|date=1984
|title=Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
|edition=2nd |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2634-7
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=== Volume 9 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Evgeny M. |author-last1=Lifshitz |author-link1=Evgeny Lifshitz
|author-first2=
|
|title=Statistical Physics, Part 2: Theory of the Condensed State
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Butterworth-Heinemann]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2636-1
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=== Volume 10 ===
* {{cite book
|author-first1=Evgeny M. |author-last1=Lifshitz |author-link1=Evgeny Lifshitz
|author-first2=
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|title=Physical Kinetics
|edition=1st |volume=
|publisher=[[Pergamon Press]]
|isbn=978-0-7506-2635-4
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== See also ==
* [[Lectures on Theoretical Physics]]
* [[List of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics]]
* [[List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics]]
* [[List of textbooks in electromagnetism]]
*[[The Theoretical Minimum]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
* [[Internet Archive]]: {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22L.D.+Landau+%26+E.M.+Lifshitz%22 |
* [[Britannica Online]]: [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/140626/Course-of-Theoretical-Physics ''Course of Theoretical Physics'']
* [[Internet Archive]]: [https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-textbooks-series/Vol%201%20-%20Landau%2C%20Lifshitz%20-%20Mechanics%20%283rd%20ed%2C%201976%29/ Landau-Lifschitz Vol. 1-10]
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