Landau is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Landau may also refer to:

Places

  • Landau an der Isar, a town in Bavaria, Germany
  • Landau, the former name of Shyrokolanivka, which became part of Ukraine after World War II
  • Landau (crater), on the far side of the Moon

Vehicles

  • Landau (carriage), a type of convertible carriage named after the city of Landau
  • Landau (automobile), a type of convertible auto
  • Ford Landau, an automobile produced in Brazil from 1971 to 1983
  • Ford Landau (Australia), an automobile produced in Australia from 1973 to 1976

People and fictional characters

  • Landau (surname)

Other uses

  • Big O notation, also called Landau notation or Bachmann-Landau notation, a mathematical notation describing the limiting behaviour of a function
  • Landau quantization, the quantization of the cyclotron orbits of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field, named for Lev Landau
  • ASV Landau, a German football club based in Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate

See also

  • Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, near Moscow, Russia, named for Lev Landau
  • Landau Commission, set up by the Israeli Government in 1987