About this book

Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Landau's way.

The authors

1908–1968 · Soviet theoretical physicist

Profession: Physicist
Worked at: Kapitza Institute, Moscow State University, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Ioffe Institute
Studied at: St Petersburg University, Baku State University, Baku Polytechnicum
Studied under: Abram Ioffe
Prizes: Max Planck Medal (1960), Nobel Prize in Physics (1962), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1960), Fritz London Award (1960)

Set the Theoretical Minimum exam, which only 43 people passed in his lifetime.

1915–1985 · Soviet physicist

Profession: Physicist
Worked at: Kapitza Institute, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
Studied at: Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Studied under: Lev Landau
Prizes: Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1982), Mikhail Lomonosov Award (1958), Landau Gold Medal (1974)

Wrote the Course down with Landau, who rarely wrote anything himself.

Prerequisite: Quantum Mechanics (Landau)

Then read: Statistical Physics, Part 2 (Lifshitz) · Physical Kinetics (Lifshitz)

Yes · Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier) paperback, 3rd edition

Get the 3rd edition (1980), revised by Lifshitz and Pitaevskii.

Recommended: Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5

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4 editions

First published 1958

Earliest edition listed: 1958 · Pergamon PressAddison-Wesley Pub. Co.

1958 · Pergamon PressAddison-Wesley Pub. Co.
1986 · Pergamon Press · 3rd ed., rev. and enl., reprinted with corrections / by E. M. Lifshitz and L. P. Pitaevskiĭ ; translated from the Russian by J. B. Sykes and M. J. Kearsley.
2013 · Elsevier Science & Technology Books · ISBN 9780080503509
2013 · Elsevier Science & Technology Books · ISBN 9780080570464

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