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The great russian physicist Lev Landau developed a famous entry exam to test his students. This \"Theoretical...

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The great russian physicist LevLandau developed a famous entry exam to test his students. This\"Theoretical Minimum\" contained everything he considered elementaryfor a young theoretical physicist. Despite its name, it wasnotoriously hard and comprehensive, and in Landau's time, only 43students passed it.

I wonder if anyone can provide the list of topics, or even acopy of the exam?

(I'm sure I'd have no chance to pass, but I'd like to see it outof a sense of sportmanship ;-). Also, I think it would make quite agood curriculum of theoretical physics (at least pre 1960).)

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The list of topics can be found here in Russian of course Nowadays students are examined by collaborators of Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Each exam as it was before consists of    See Answer
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