Landau: The Physicist & the Man
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Landau: The Physicist & the Man

Recollections of L D Landau

  1. 334 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Landau: The Physicist & the Man

Recollections of L D Landau

About this book

The name of Lev Davidovich Landau is widely known as that of one of the greatest twentieth-century physicists. A brilliant teacher to those pupils he carefully chose, notoriously controversial in his outlook and opinions, the combination of his outstanding intellect and striking personality brought him almost legendary fame. This volume contains letters, papers and recollections by friends and pupils, describing Landau's views of science, culture and life, and provides the reader with a vivid portrait of a remarkable man.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. LANDAU: The Physicist and the Man
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. From the Editors
  6. From the Translator
  7. Chapter 1. The pride of Soviet science
  8. The Contributors
  9. Chapter 2. Lev Davidovich Landau (1908—68)
  10. Chapter 3. Recollections of L. D. Landau
  11. Chapter 4. Teacher and friend
  12. Chapter 5. Dau In the thirties
  13. Chapter 6. The Leningrad period in the life of young Professor Landau
  14. Chapter 7. Studies on elementary particles
  15. Chapter 8. Landau
  16. Chapter 9. The passionate sobriety of youth
  17. Chapter 10. If all the scientists in theworld
  18. Chapter 11. Landau through a pupil's eyes
  19. Chapter 12. Some meetings with L. D. Landau
  20. Chapter 13. Landau and others
  21. Chapter 14. A remarkable physicist
  22. Chapter 15. Further thoughts
  23. Chapter 16. In the kaleidoscope of memory
  24. Chapter 17. The 'young people'
  25. Chapter 18. By car into the mountains
  26. Chapter 19. If Landau were alive now
  27. Chapter 20. Landau as I knew him
  28. Chapter 21. How the school of Landau was started
  29. Chapter 22. Some brush-strokes for a portrait not yet painted
  30. Chapter 23. How I became a teacher at Kharkov University
  31. Chapter 24. L. D. Landau as a teacher
  32. Chapter 25. From my memories
  33. Chapter 26. From not very close
  34. Chapter 27. My recollections of Landau
  35. Chapter 28. Lev Davidovich Landau
  36. Chapter 29. Science and life: conversations with Dau
  37. Chapter 30. A page or two of reminiscences about L. D. Landau
  38. Chapter 31. My rare 'talks' with L. D. Landau
  39. Chapter 32. From my memories of L. D.Landau
  40. Chapter 33. Recollections of Landau
  41. Chapter 34. As memory dictates
  42. Chapter 35. Memories of Dau
  43. Chapter 36. Landau as I remember him
  44. Chapter 37. Recollections of the Teacher
  45. APPENDICES
  46. Chapter 38. The discovery and elucidation of superfluidity in liquid helium On the sixtieth birthday of AcademicianL. D. Landau
  47. Chapter 39. Landau's plain talkto students of physics
  48. Chapter 40. Landau's ten commandments
  49. The harder you work, thebetter
  50. Chapter 41. Encyclopaedia of theoretical physics
  51. Chapter 42. The Course: in memory of L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
  52. Chapter 43. Landau, Bohr, and Kapitza: letters 1936—41
  53. Index