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[[File:Sommerfeld1897.gif|thumb|Photo of Sommerfeld in 1897]]

'''''Lectures on Theoretical Physics''''' is a six-volume series of physics textbooks translated from [[Arnold Sommerfeld]]'s classic German texts '''''Vorlesungen über Theoretische Physik'''''. The series includes the volumes ''Mechanics'', ''Mechanics of Deformable Bodies'', ''Electrodynamics'', ''Optics'', ''Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics'', and ''Partial Differential Equations in Physics''. SommerfeldFocusing wroteon allone sixsubject textbookseach insemester, Germanthe basedlectures onformed hisa three-year lecturecycle seriesof courses that Sommerfeld repeatedly giventaught at the [[University of Munich]] for over thirty years. Sommerfeld's lectures were famous and he was held to be one of the physics greatest lecturers of his time.<ref name=Lindsay />

== Background ==