A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences dedicated to the centenary of L D Landau’s birth was held in the Conference Hall of the Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, on 22 and 23 January 2008. An Opening Address by A F Andreev and the following reports were presented at the session:

1. Andreev A F (Kapitza Institute of Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Supersolidity of quantum glasses”;
2. Kagan Yu M (Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow) “Formation kinetics of the Bose condensate and long-range order”;
3. Pitaevskii L P (Kapitza Institute of Physical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento and BDC Center, Trento, Italy) “Superfluid Fermi liquid in a unitary regime”;
4. Lebedev V V (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region) “Kolmogorov, Landau, and the modern theory of turbulence”;
5. Khalatnikov I M (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Kamenshchik A Yu (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Dipartimento di Fisica and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna, Italy) “Lev Landau and the problem of singularities in cosmology”;
6. Ioffe B L (Russian State Scientific Center Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow) “Axial anomaly in quantum electro- and chromodynamics and the structure of the vacuum in quantum chromodynamics”;
7. Okun L B (Russian State Scientific Center Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow) “The theory of relativity and the Pythagorean theorem”;
8. Lipatov L N (St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg) “Bjorken and Regge asymptotics of scattering amplitudes in QCD and in supersymmetric gauge models.”

PACS: 03.30.+p DOI: 10.1070/PU2008v051n06ABEH006552 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2008/6/k/ 000260064600009 2-s2.0-53849137321 2008PhyU...51..622O Citation: Okun L B "The theory of relativity and the Pythagorean theorem" Phys. Usp. 51 622–631 (2008) BibTexBibNote ® (generic)BibNote ® (RIS)MedlineRefWorks Оригинал: Окунь Л Б «Теория относительности и теорема Пифагора» УФН 178 653–663 (2008); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0178.200806l.0653