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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{{bywho}} that Landau composed much of the series in his head while in an [[NKVD]] prison in 1938-1939.<ref>

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}}</ref> However, almost all of the actual writing of the early volumes was done by Lifshitz, giving rise to theits witticism,description {{bywho}} as "not a word of Landau and not a thought of Lifshitz".<ref>

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|author=Anton Z. Capri