Lev Landau did not just teach theoretical physics. He built a gate.
His famous Theoretical Minimum was an exam system so brutal that between 1934 and 1961 only 43 people passed. The name sounds gentle, but the idea was severe, before entering Landau’s school, you had to know mechanics, quantum theory, statistical physics, electrodynamics, relativity, and mathematics at a level most students would call impossible.
Little known fact: in 2010, as he was awaiting the Millennium Prize award, Grigori Perelman performed in a gig in Moscow and it's absolutely rocking https://t.co/awgcC41LdN