Direct and inverse methods in nonlinear evolution equations. Lectures given at the C. I. M. E. summer school, Cetraro, Italy, September 5--12, 1999 (Q1420197)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Conte, Robert}, Exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations by singularity analysis, 1-83 [Zbl 1060.35001] \textit{Magri, Franco; Falqui, Gregorio; Pedroni, Marco}, The method of Poisson pairs in the theory of nonlinear PDEs, 85-136 [Zbl 1061.35118] \textit{Musette, Micheline}, Nonlinear superposition formulae of integrable partial differential equations by the singular manifold method, 137-170 [Zbl 1060.35139] \textit{Satsuma, Junkichi}, Hirota bilinear method for nonlinear evolution equations, 171-222 [Zbl 1054.35085] \textit{Winternitz, Pavel}, Lie groups, singularities and solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, 223-273 [Zbl 1043.35013]