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The contents of this book will be apparent after enumerating the major part of titles of chapters (the global sum of its, except introduction, is 38): Partial Differentiation, Solutions of PDE's and their Specification; PDE's and related Arbitrary Functions; Particular Solutions of PDE's; Similarity Solutions; Correctly Set Problems; Some Preliminary Aspects of Linear First Order PDE's; Linear First Order PDE's with Two Independent Variables; First Order Nonlinear PDE's; First Order PDE's with Two Independent Variables, General Theory; First Order PDE's with Multiple Independent Variables; Original Details of the Fourier Approach to Boundary Value Problems; Eigenfunctions and Eigenvalues; Non-Orthogonal Eigenfunctions; Further Example of Fourier Style Analysis; Inhomogeneous Problems; Local Heat Sources; An Inhomogeneous Configuration; Uniqueness of Solutions; Alternative Representations of Solutions; Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations; Boundary Value Problems and Sturm-Liouville Theory; Green's Functions and Boundary Value Problems; PDE's, Green's Functions and Integral Equations; Singular and Infinite Range Problems; Orthogonality and its Ramifications; Fourier Expansions: Generalities; Fourier Expansions: Varied Examples; Fourier Integrals and Transforms; Applications of Fourier Transforms; Legendre Polynomials and Related Expansions; Bessel Functions and Related Expansions. Hyperbolic Equations. The subject matter of this book primarily concerns the simpler equations of a linear type, with complexities occasioned by the usual need to obtain those solutions which satisfy prescribed conditions; and aims to give the reader a broad overview of direct approaches and related theory in a classical framework. A large variety of impressive examples is discussed for illustrative purposes and many of them are proposed at the end of each chapter for solution by the reader. For the reading of this book some previous familiarity with methods of higher mathematics and differential equations (ordinary and partial) will be welcome. The style of explanation is not classical, such as the combination of \textit{theorems} and their \textit{proofs,} but uses the form of step by step remarkable clear explanation without formulating rigid theorems and its exact assumptions. This style of explanation is, in my opinion, useful especially for readers which are in position of users of theory and methods of PDE's or wish to have a broad review of methods of PDE's; naturally the book will be helpful for very wide audience which would benefit from reading it - from students and Ph.D candidates (not only of mathematical direction) to specialists. This book can be recommended as a well written handbook containing an original approach to the description of basic and advanced methods of the theory of PDE.