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This paper is a comprehensive guide to recent literature on bispectral problems, with a historical perspective and an extensive bibliography. It gives references in which the reader can find information on connections between bispectral problems and (a) the Schrödinger equation, (b) the KdV equation, (c) the heat equation, (d) equations of the form \(u_t = L(u)\), where \(L\) is a linear elliptic differential operator in spatial variables. A few mathematical details are presented for (c) and (d). The author also mentions some results on the relationship between finding a commuting pair of matrices of which one is band-limited, finding an integral operator and a differential operator which commute, and Krall orthogonal polynomials. Some fairly detailed results are then presented from which the reader may obtain a quick, easy-to-follow overview of how to construct functions \(f(x,\lambda)\) which satisfy the same differential equation with respect to the variable \(\lambda\) as with respect to \(x\). This is the eighth of ten sections, but the reader not familiar with bispectral problems should probably read this section first. The paper concludes with two brief sections on the symmetric group and isomodromy deformations, respectively. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0885.00050].