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The conference "Advances in Theoretical Physics", held in Chernogolovka, Russia, is devoted to Lev Landau's 100 year anniversary. It was organized by the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, which was established by Landau's pupils who carried on his traditions. The conference reviews current progress in the main branches of theoretical physics. The talks covered solid state physics and cosmology, low temperature physics and optics, quantum field theory and statistical physics, physics of low-dimensional systems and hydrodynamics. ... Read more

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Physicist Lev Landau's name is shrouded in mystery, synonymous with unbelievable myths and an uncertain mixture of fact and fiction. He was both the author of anti-Stalin leaflets and recipient of Stalin's awards, a follower of free love and a loyal friend, and an opponent to both marriage and divorce. The details of his life surprised even his closest friends and family when they were revealed years after his death. This book, based on information collected from friends and colleagues who knew him for years as well as from close study of his archives shows the reader new sides to the famous scientist. IN RUSSIAN. ... Read more

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A lucid presentation of statistical physics and thermodynamics which develops from the general principles to give a large number of applications of the theory.

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Customer Reviews (6)

Very dense
This book covers a lot of material in a fairly straightforward order - but it's very dense and not a lot of helpful examples. Good for reference, but Pathria is probably better if you're going through grad level stat mech for the first time.

classic yes but pretty much useless
Dont listen to people who tell you this is a classic text. Yes this is classic because everyone says so but no one has really learnt anything new from it.

If your intention is to understand thermodynamics and stat mechanics, this is the wrong book. If you are already a master of the subject, then Landau will converse with you. Otherwise he talks to himself!

In other words this is bed time reading for the expert (everything in it is right), but is completely useless as learning material.

Of course if you are like everyone who thinks this is a "must have" (and cannot read) for every physicist, just buy it and put it in the shelf. It looks nice.

Great Book, the best I've ever seen!
no words can describe the richness and clarity of this book.the description of Maxwell's distribution, Gibbs formalism,etc...all with marvelous clarity and rigour. Everyone who wants to learn statistical Mechanics (under and graduates) MUSTread this book.

Unrivalled Masterpiece
This book is a classic, especially in the sense it is somewhat old fashioned in its basic approaches when compared with newer books. For example it examines statistics and entropy from the ergodic as opposed to the ensemble approach. Information Theory and role of symmetry and symmetry breaking is not treated in detail. However I can't hold these omissions against the book since these developments happend mostly in the late 70s.

What Landau does here, and which in explicably very few Statistical Mechanics books do nowadays, is the full Gibbs Formalism. Not only is the Gibbs Formalism more compatible with Quantum Mechanics, it can also fits in beautifully with Ensemble Statistics and Inofrmation Theory. More over, it is at once clear Maxwell and Boltzmann statistics are only special cases of the Gibbs formalism, and can be easily shown in a few lines.

What Landau does, is to gave an elegant and cohesive view the trully fundamental features of Statistical Mechanics. Chapters 1-6 of this book alone displays a deeper level of understanding than whole books that have been written. If you are interested in Statistical Mechanics at all, this must be a centerpiece of your library.

THE BEST BOOK ON STATISTICAL PHYSICS
This is the Volume 5 of the famous Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All serious students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this excellent Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 5 treats the subject of classical and quantum statistics. It contains an unusual approach of these subjects, based on the general Gibbs method, avoiding the introduction of ergodic hypotheses and, in the case of the ideal gas, of "a priori" probabilities, which are difficult to justify and serves only to obscure the exposition. The book is complete and contains chapters not usually found in other similar books, such as the chapter on second-order phase transitions. The clarity of exposition and rigour is notorious in this book. A magnific book! ... Read more

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This is a French translation of the Russian series.From back cover:Le present tome traite de la mecanique quantique non relativiste... ... Read more

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This is a French translation of the Russian series. 1967 hardcover 2nd edition. ... Read more

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A biography of Lev Landau, one of the greatest Soviet theoretical physicists, whose career was cut short by a catastrophic car accident in 1962 and who was still only sixty when he died six years later. He won the Nobel Prize 'for pioneering work on the theory of the condensed state of matter, particularly liquid helium'. But the book shows that Landau's characterisation of himself as 'one of the last of the universal men of theoretical physics' was fully justified. Clearly and concisely it describes his achievements in all areas of theoretical physics from hydrodynamics to the quantum theory of fields. Attention is also paid to his genius as a teacher and mentor of young scientists, and throughout the book the true humanity of the man is evident ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

The complete account on Landau's style
I have been reading the Livanova's book again and again since undergraduate to the present PhD studies.To my knowledge this is the more detailed book about the great physicist and teacher Lev Davidovitch Landau, the unmistakable ``Dau''.

You'll find in this book an impressive amount of details about Dau himself, about his world wide famous style as a physicist, his school on theoretical physics, the theoretical minimum, the relationship with his pupils, etc..

Above all, and the most important, you will find Dau own advice about what, when and how to study to become an eventual theoretical physicist in Landau's high professional tradition.It is a very nontrivial advice!

The Landau's style account
I have been reading the Livanova's book again and again since undergraduate to the present PhD studies. To my knowledge this is the more detailed book about the great physicist and teacher Lev Davidovitch Landau, the unmistakable ``Dau''. You'll find in this book an impressive amount of details about Dau himself, about his world wide famous style as a physicist, his school on theoretical physics, the theoretical minimum, the relationship with his pupils, etc.. Above all, and the most important, you will find Dau own advice about what, when and how to study to become an eventual theoretical physicist in Landau's high professional tradition. It is a very nontrivial advice!

The Landau's style account
I have been reading the Livanova's book again and again since undergraduate to the present PhD studies. To my knowledge this is the more detailed book about the great physicist and teacher Lev Davidovitch Landau, the unmistakable ``Dau''. You'll find in this book an impressive amount of details about Dau himself, about his world wide famous style as a physicist, his school on theoretical physics, the theoretical minimum, the relationship with his pupils, etc.. Above all, and the most important, you will find Dau own advice about what, when and how to study to become an eventual theoretical physicist in Landau's high professional tradition. It is a very nontrivial advice! ... Read more