Landau’s name is among the most famous physicists of our time. There are many reasons for this: scientific achievements in different fields of physics, popularity of his books (especially the manyvolume course in theoretical physics produced jointly with Evgeny Lifshitz, which has been translated completely or partially into ten languages), a vivid personality, and an inimitable flair for polemics.
A most outstanding representative of theoretical physics as a profession, Academician Landau made an invaluable contribution to the formation and establishment of the style of modern theoretical physics.
Though a lot of things can be said about style and form in literature, the problem of style in science remains obscure and sometimes in complete darkness; compared to content, it plays a much smaller part in science than in art. If you take a book or a physics journal, however, with both publications 100 years old or even dating from the beginning...
