The probabilities are not biographical certainties; they are a probability ensemble inferred from how often a strategy is the shortest logical route to the selected section/chapter result.
Prevalence ranking — 33 inferred strategies
Overlapping strategy prevalence: percentage = cases using this strategy / 300; totals may exceed 100%.
The corpus is sampled across the whole ten-volume course, with Volume I represented completely at the level of its 52 numbered sections. The remaining cases are distributed nearly uniformly across Fields, Quantum Mechanics, QED, Statistical Physics, Fluids, Elasticity, Continuous Media, Condensed Matter, and Physical Kinetics.
| # | Vol. | Section / Chapter | Main thesis | Result / route | Primary strategies |
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The Landau theoretical minimum is treated here as a style of compression: every subject is reduced to the variables, invariances, variational principles, and asymptotic regimes that make theoretical physics calculable.
Each demonstration shows how to ask the sequence of subquestions that would lead from a raw problem to the Landau-style result.
Source spine
The page uses the ten-volume Landau–Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics as the organizing corpus, plus the historical Landau theoretical minimum tradition. It uses chapter and section titles, derived summaries, and methodological reconstructions; it does not reproduce textbook prose.
Core source checkpoints: ten-volume Course description; Volume I Mechanics contents; Volume II and III table-of-contents summaries; Volume IV, VIII, and X table-of-contents summaries; public summaries of the theoretical minimum tradition.
Interpretive caveat
Landau initiated the Course and shaped its style, but the written series was produced collaboratively with Lifshitz and later contributors. The algorithmic reconstruction should be read as a reconstruction of the Landau-school theoretical style, not as a claim about private mental steps in any single author’s mind.