Editing Lev Landau (section)

===Early years===
[[File:Landau1910.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Landau family in 1910]]
[[File:Rundyna5.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Young Landau in 1914]]
Landau was born on 22 January 1908 to [[Jews|Jewish]] parents<ref name="frs"/><ref>[[Martin Gilbert]], ''The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History'', Schocken Books, 2001, {{ISBN|0805241906}} p. 284</ref><ref>''Frontiers of physics: proceedings of the Landau Memorial Conference'', Tel Aviv, Israel, 6–10 June 1988, (Pergamon Press, 1990) {{ISBN|0080369391}}, pp. 13–14</ref><ref>Edward Teller, ''Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics'', Basic Books 2002, {{ISBN|0738207780}} p. 124</ref> in [[Baku]], the [[Russian Empire]], in what is now [[Azerbaijan]]. Landau's father, David Lvovich Landau, was an engineer with the local oil industry, and his mother, Lyubov Veniaminovna Garkavi-Landau, was a doctor. Both came to Baku from [[Mogilev]] and both graduated the Mogilev gymnasium.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/Great-Baku-native-Lev-Landau.html|title=Great Baku native Lev Landau|website=Vestnik Kavkaza|access-date=22 January 2019|archive-date=10 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610020427/http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/Great-Baku-native-Lev-Landau.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Выпускники Могилевской гимназии |url=http://www.petergen.com/history/moggim.shtml |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=www.petergen.com}}</ref> He learned [[differential calculus]] at age 12 and [[integral calculus]] at age 13. Landau graduated in 1920 at age 13 from [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]]. His parents considered him too young to attend university, so for a year he attended the Baku Economical Technical School. In 1922, at age 14, he [[matriculation|matriculated]] at the [[Baku State University]], studying in two departments simultaneously: the Departments of Physics and Mathematics, and the Department of Chemistry. Subsequently, he ceased studying chemistry, but remained interested in the field throughout his life.