While doing this damn NPA hw set in the midnight, I took a little rest to read some Landau just now.

First, I don't understand why these series are still so expensive in US, when the copyright already expires after 50 years- Dover, you guys should do this right away! In China a Mechanics is just 4 $ anyway...

2nd, it also seems to me that Americans do not appreciate Landau that much, comparing their madness for Feynman, who says "physics is just like having sex, for the most important thing is the process", while Landau is so shy a nerd who can only complaining all day that "all the good physics problems have been sloven just as all the good girls been taken..." hehe. Their books' style are also different in this sense, Feymann is too show-off to me, though he is quite a simulating figure to the young kids and general public- afer all, do they know there's a guy named Schwinger? =) And, well, I have to say I love Landau!!! His book is always my favorate, clear & clean, compact, great math, and the best thing is you can easily grasp the whole idea from the very beginning. This is really a dream for the real physicists- it is just amazing how a ppl can write something like this!- the first few chapters of fluid dynamics, and the whole Mechanics and Statistics are just like wonderland...

Maybe this is also a reason for the difference on style between physicist from Eastern Europe/China and US.