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This monograph is composed of 5 chapters and develops the basic ingredients for a modern introduction in the theory of stationary or evolutionary linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. The first chapter contains basic notions on monotone operators, convex functions, distributions, as well as some examples of evolution equations in Hilbert spaces. Chapter 2 is devoted to the theory of boundary value problems of elliptic type. Some examples in the capilarity theory illustrate the main models developed in this chapter. Next, the author studies nonlinear parabolic equations with various boundary conditions. This study is continued in Chapter 4, which is mainly devoted to homogeneous or nonhomogeneous Robin-Steklov conditions. The last chapter of this work contains several examples that show the importance of the Fourier method in the treatment of abstract linear differential equations. The work is well written and it is recommended to graduate students for a better and rigorous understanding of some basic models arising in mathematical physics.