13:00 I studied in this institute (MIPT) and Landau was one of its founders. When I was still there I met a few students that have passed the modern version of the exam and these guys were all brilliant. It is quite curious to hear about this exam outside of my university and in such a big channel in english. Thank you for sharing this with such a wide public!
When I was preparing for exams, I used to get "black market" Russian textbooks and problem sets and they were infamously hard. You had to be quite creative to solve most of them, and if you were able to, then you could sail past any "normal" exam. In Russia, the exam does you. :D
I got a Russian Math/Physics textbook too almost 15 years ago- It took me a week to work through even the first three pages. One needed so much more math as a prerequsite than is was taught even in a "usual" math diploma./ master.
@@cerealport2726So he is not “a russian scientist”. He was from Azerbaijan. But even if you want to say that he was from soviet union, then call him “a soviet scientist”. “soviet” does not mean “russian”
I vividly recall my first encounter with the textbook of Landau and Lifshitz. During the theoretical mechanics lecture Prof. Fritzsch seemed to recollect and present in a certain style. Without telling explicitly he was using the exact text, formulas and derivations from the classical mechanics textbook word by word knowing them by heart. So the book was actually our lecture notes. Used different (modern) books for most other topics but the problems and also the huge scope of each of the volumes are still impressive. Another interesting source to get to know more about Landau's school of theoretical physics is the preview test chapter from M. Shifman's book "Under The Spell Of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies".
It had to be Landau, one of the most versatile physicists. I studied physics from his books, his way of writing is concise and yet full of insightful information, for instance, his presentation of nöether's theorems is the most neat one yet! Thanks for making this video.
10:15 - GULag is organization that governs the labour camps, not the name of the camp. It is abbreviation of Main Camp's Agency. It's like FBP - Federal Bureau of Prisons in USA.
Loved this clip! As a collector of math and physics books, personally those books of Lifshitz and Landau are my absolute priced possesion , if I lose anything in life, these are the last to go. ❤
After reading the questions , I said "hmm" to myself cuz I couldn't even properly understand what it wanted or asked 😅. Yeah my dreams of Becoming a Physicist isn't looking good. Thank you for the video.
I can't help thinking of the 'Coffin Exams' around that time. They were allegedly anti-semitic, but these physics exams seem to be of the same type but the situation is reversed.
Russians no joke . My grandparents escaped from Soviet Union to NYC Brooklyn. I worked in nuclear research physics Fermilab. We had many Physicists who fled Russia after 1990 . תודה רבה שלום
Theory A: Landau/Lifschitz Theory B: Jackson Theory C: Schiff, Merzbacher, Gasirowicz, Baym Theory D: Sakurai, Newton Theory E: Kittel, Reichl Recommendations at the university of Karlsruhe around late 1980ies, early 1990ies. Despite using only the first volume of his textbooks lecturers often hinted at interesting chapters of the other ones for all of the higher courses. Possibly the later volumes were deemed a bit outdated with regard to notation.
“When it was still possible to do so.” When I heard that I thought ‘shades of Charles H. Duell.’ We are just at the beginning of our understanding of physics. There is so much we are completely unaware of. There are nearly endless opportunities to make significant discoveries/contributions in all branches by one person. I expect your estimation of humanity’s potential to be higher than this.
You may read in his Wikipedia biography, that he had a ranking for physicists, with 0 the best and 5 the worst, e.g. Newton was 0 and EInstein was 0.5. He rated himself as 2-2.5
@@MitchellPorter2025 you gotta note that the ranking was logarithmic. And I don't believe he placed Newton at 0, that would be weird on a logarithmic scale.
Being good at sums is no more creditable than being a bad guy is discreditable. Causation the foundation of physics means the there is no credit, and no blame. (See Robert Sapolski for details).
Communities tend to direct their children into fields where they believe they'll find success (and money), after a while some fields become saturated with particular groups of people.
Moreover, if we delve into this topic, then soviet russia, on the contrary, was only stopping (limiting) the scientific activities of the majority of soviet scientists, especially if they were of any nationality other than russian. During Stalin's time, science was generally prohibited, and if it was allowed somewhere, then scientists had to pay for all the funding themselves, because less than one percent of the state budget was allocated for science and education. That’s why shouting today "the best math and physics in rUSSIA ❤️❤️❤️" is the stupidest thing ever.
For context, this test was taken in the Kharkhiv Theoretical Phyics School in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Although Landau was Russian, many of the other scientists listed here were not. Russia history appropriating the work and culture of their colonial subjects is long and its effects ripple throughout the western world to this day.
Gday, what do you personally think of the Theoretical minimum? Yes, it weeds out those with 'holes in their foundational knowledge'. But, how many of the famous Theoretical physicists actually sat the exam? For example, did Albert Einstein sit this exam?
Is it not the same Russians who were supplying rocket engines to NASA and also still transport their astronauts to the international space station? Don't be a jealous Ukrainian or American and try to rewrite history based on your petty politics.
russia ranks behind most of western europe in the world famous PISA education tables. Heck even america ranks significantly higher than russia in PISA reading and science.. Of course russia is outside top 50 for global innovation index topped by the west
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I studied in this institute (MIPT) and Landau was one of its founders. When I was still there I met a few students that have passed the modern version of the exam and these guys were all brilliant.
It is quite curious to hear about this exam outside of my university and in such a big channel in english. Thank you for sharing this with such a wide public!
When I was preparing for exams, I used to get "black market" Russian textbooks and problem sets and they were infamously hard. You had to be quite creative to solve most of them, and if you were able to, then you could sail past any "normal" exam.
In Russia, the exam does you. :D
In modern Russia, it is compensated by the fact that nearly everyone cheats, even in the best universities, really.
Can you name some examples? I'm interested
I got a Russian Math/Physics textbook too almost 15 years ago- It took me a week to work through even the first three pages. One needed so much more math as a prerequsite than is was taught even in a "usual" math diploma./ master.
So he was like House MD of theoretical physics.
I love videos like this no background music ... just talking and graphics
Here for the soothing voice and clear thought process.
Same here 😊
This was your best video so far! Thank you
To be honest, they were Soviet scientists
I am not sure many in the West understand the difference.
so....?
@@cerealport2726So he is not “a russian scientist”. He was from Azerbaijan. But even if you want to say that he was from soviet union, then call him “a soviet scientist”. “soviet” does not mean “russian”
@@bogdana.luchko Why are you whining about it?
Irrelevant
I remember reading about this in my junior year and feeling better about my exams 😅 It's cool that you made a video about this!
love your videos so much 💗💗
Love watching your videos before bed. Thanks for sharing this interesting topic
I vividly recall my first encounter with the textbook of Landau and Lifshitz. During the theoretical mechanics lecture Prof. Fritzsch seemed to recollect and present in a certain style. Without telling explicitly he was using the exact text, formulas and derivations from the classical mechanics textbook word by word knowing them by heart. So the book was actually our lecture notes. Used different (modern) books for most other topics but the problems and also the huge scope of each of the volumes are still impressive. Another interesting source to get to know more about Landau's school of theoretical physics is the preview test chapter from M. Shifman's book "Under The Spell Of Landau: When Theoretical Physics Was Shaping Destinies".
hmmm 😁😁
Excellent and very interesting video as always
Thank you❤. Your content is truly inspiring.❤❤❤
It had to be Landau, one of the most versatile physicists. I studied physics from his books, his way of writing is concise and yet full of insightful information, for instance, his presentation of nöether's theorems is the most neat one yet! Thanks for making this video.
My mum grew up in the societ union and she NEVER stops talking about how hard her exams were and how easy the gcses in the uk are in comparison lol.
I never got past chapter 1 of Landau & Lifshitz' Classical Mechanics, ...
Same story
They're grad level books really. They assume you've already had undergrad level courses in mechanics, electrodynamics, qm, etc
10:15 - GULag is organization that governs the labour camps, not the name of the camp. It is abbreviation of Main Camp's Agency. It's like FBP - Federal Bureau of Prisons in USA.
5:08 Mew too?
Mewtwo???😱
I read the title as physical exam and immediately thought my time has come. Then i reread it and thought nah I'm good.
Loved this clip! As a collector of math and physics books, personally those books of Lifshitz and Landau are my absolute priced possesion , if I lose anything in life, these are the last to go. ❤
Curiously fascinating and exceptionally informative!!!!!!!🤔🙂😀😃👍👍.
A hint of daylight is visible in the room - Midsummer vibes.
After reading the questions , I said "hmm" to myself cuz I couldn't even properly understand what it wanted or asked 😅.
Yeah my dreams of Becoming a Physicist isn't looking good.
Thank you for the video.
If I took it, Landau would be humming constantly - it would sound like aum aum aum, as though he were meditating...
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Today is 'National mathematics day' in India
Yeah LANDAU'S i have tried it once years ago
I can't help thinking of the 'Coffin Exams' around that time. They were allegedly anti-semitic, but these physics exams seem to be of the same type but the situation is reversed.
Russians no joke .
My grandparents escaped from Soviet Union to NYC Brooklyn.
I worked in nuclear research physics Fermilab.
We had many Physicists who fled Russia after 1990 .
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לא הבנתי אתה ישראלי?
TNX
The car accident was in 1962. Sunday, 7 January 1962.
Great video! Any chance of taking the problems mentioned head on?
Tibees could pass 😌
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Excellent livres (MIR) de Landau.....
40 out of how many?
46?
39
I like how you say omega
Math ASMR
Theory A: Landau/Lifschitz
Theory B: Jackson
Theory C: Schiff, Merzbacher, Gasirowicz, Baym
Theory D: Sakurai, Newton
Theory E: Kittel, Reichl
Recommendations at the university of Karlsruhe around late 1980ies, early 1990ies.
Despite using only the first volume of his textbooks lecturers often hinted at interesting chapters of the other ones for all of the higher courses. Possibly the later volumes were deemed a bit outdated with regard to notation.
I laughed so hard at 5:08 , Mewtwo is so funny oh my god😭
just put that sin(x) integral in wolfram alpha and its no joke, really? is this considered "the basics"?
Reminds me of evil scientist
ie.irodov....ss krotov....all russian books are a nightmare for indian students 😂😂
Language in hindi also please❤
“When it was still possible to do so.” When I heard that I thought ‘shades of Charles H. Duell.’ We are just at the beginning of our understanding of physics. There is so much we are completely unaware of. There are nearly endless opportunities to make significant discoveries/contributions in all branches by one person. I expect your estimation of humanity’s potential to be higher than this.
I’m 139 it’s horrible
Yes, very smart, but could they find the volume of a hypersphere?
What is his lands iq
You may read in his Wikipedia biography, that he had a ranking for physicists, with 0 the best and 5 the worst, e.g. Newton was 0 and EInstein was 0.5. He rated himself as 2-2.5
@@MitchellPorter2025 you gotta note that the ranking was logarithmic. And I don't believe he placed Newton at 0, that would be weird on a logarithmic scale.
You or I can write a test that no one can pass. So what’s the point of making impossible tests?
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hmm
Mu2!!!
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What's with the fake wall of books?
That's books
Bro's never seen a bookshelf before 💀
@@MacLuckyPTP it's not because the books are related in the same order on different shelves
Good looking wall paper.
Russia is not the Soviet Union. Not all soviet scientist were Russians.
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Uno de los estudiantes que aprobó el examen se llamaba Vladimir y de apellido Putin.❤😂😂😂😂😂😂
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
165 I.Q. and intelligent.
Soviet Union not Russia
Being good at sums is no more creditable than being a bad guy is discreditable. Causation the foundation of physics means the there is no credit, and no blame. (See Robert Sapolski for details).
Why where like 80% of soviet famous physicists jewish?
Not only soviet. Einstein, von Neumann, Feynman, Weinberg, Witten, etc.
Communities tend to direct their children into fields where they believe they'll find success (and money), after a while some fields become saturated with particular groups of people.
Soviet, not Russian
lovely voice .....like everything else
The best Physics & Math..RUSSIA, of course❤❤
This exam was in fact taken in the Kharkhiv Theoretical Physics School, in Kharkiv, UKRAINE.
Moreover, if we delve into this topic, then soviet russia, on the contrary, was only stopping (limiting) the scientific activities of the majority of soviet scientists, especially if they were of any nationality other than russian. During Stalin's time, science was generally prohibited, and if it was allowed somewhere, then scientists had to pay for all the funding themselves, because less than one percent of the state budget was allocated for science and education. That’s why shouting today "the best math and physics in rUSSIA ❤️❤️❤️" is the stupidest thing ever.
Russia is the best
@@hlgshm any arguments? reasons? evidence? specific examples? of course not
@@hlgshm oh, sorry, the best at appropriating other people's achievements? yes, no doubt
We need audio track in hindi also plz.
Don't say anything about exmas otherwise "im preparing for jee 🤓🤓" chomos will come
Wow he escaped the wrath of Stalin! Interesting indeed!!✍️♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️🎬🌈☮️💟🤩😍🥰😘🤯🤯🤯🌞🌞🌞🗽🗽🗽🔥🔥🔥…
He came over to America and worked with other persecuted people from Operation Paperclip.
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Please sister in hindi language also
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For context, this test was taken in the Kharkhiv Theoretical Phyics School in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Although Landau was Russian, many of the other scientists listed here were not.
Russia history appropriating the work and culture of their colonial subjects is long and its effects ripple throughout the western world to this day.
Gday, what do you personally think of the Theoretical minimum?
Yes, it weeds out those with 'holes in their foundational knowledge'.
But, how many of the famous Theoretical physicists actually sat the exam? For example, did Albert Einstein sit this exam?
No. One obvious reason being that he was about 30 years older than Landau.
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that’s what she said.
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Why doesn't Russia produce noteworthy leading-edge physicists? Why has Russia's space program gone kaPUT, along with PUTin?
Is it not the same Russians who were supplying rocket engines to NASA and also still transport their astronauts to the international space station? Don't be a jealous Ukrainian or American and try to rewrite history based on your petty politics.
russia ranks behind most of western europe in the world famous PISA education tables. Heck even america ranks significantly higher than russia in PISA reading and science.. Of course russia is outside top 50 for global innovation index topped by the west
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