The Biography of Landau

In the snip, the speaker recounts coming across a biography of Russian physicist Lev Davidovich Landau in the library. Although the speaker had no interest in hard sciences, they decided to read the biography on a train journey. The biography detailed Landau's contributions to theoretical physics and his role in creating the renowned 'Landau and Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics.' The speaker also learned about a car accident Landau had, which left him clinically dead multiple times but eventually saved him. The biography included an anecdote about Landau waking up from a coma and teasing his son with a calculus problem, which the son couldn't solve. The speaker, feeling insulted by Landau's comment, took it as a personal challenge and decided to teach themselves mathematics to solve the problem.