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}}</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>

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}}</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. [[Vladimir Berestetskii]] 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 |title=О простоте |date=2006-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://zlo.rt.mipt.ru/?read=7096295 |title=Форум-ФРТК-МФТИ: чем ландафшиц не понравился? |date=2011-02-18 |access-date=6 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803090235/http://zlo.rt.mipt.ru/?read=7096295 |archive-date=3 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> or "'''Lanlifshitz'''" (Russian: "Ланлифшиц") in informal settings.

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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 |last=Aboites |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 |last=Livingston |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 |last= |first= |date= |website=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]] |access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref> A note in ''[[Mathematical Reviews]]'' states, "The usefulness and the success of this course have been proved by the great number of successive editions in Russian, English, [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and other languages."<ref name=":0"/> At a [[centenary]] celebration of Landau's career, it was observed that the ''Course'' had shown "unprecedented longevity."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/units/fhp/newsletters/fall2009/lubkin.cfm |title=Centenary of Lev Landau |last=Lubkin |first=Gloria B. |date=2009 |website=[[American Physical Society]] |language=en |access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref>

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 |last=Hall |first=Karl |date=2005 |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=9780262112888 |editor-last=Kaiser |editor-first=David |___location=Cambridge, MA, USA |pages=253&ndash;286 |language=en |chapter="Think Less about Foundations": A Short Course on Landau and Lifshitz's ''Course of Theoretical Physics''}}</ref>

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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 |accessdateaccess-date= 2013-11-02 |title=Internet Archive}} (for volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8) and {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22V.B.+Berestetskii%2C+E.M.+Lifshitz+%26+L.P.+Pitaevskii%22 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-11-02 |title=Internet Archive}} (for volume 4), and {{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ost-physics-landaulifshitz-statisticalphysics |accessdateaccess-date=2016-08-10 |title=Internet Archive}} (for volume 5).

*[[Britannica Online]]: [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/140626/Course-of-Theoretical-Physics ''Course of Theoretical Physics'']