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This book is a modern introductory textbook to the partial differential equations and boundary value problems and it is intended for students of engineering, mathematics, and physics. The author pays an emphasis on applications and includes a lot of exercises, several of which make use of the computer. The textbook is written in a way that makes a transition from a course in elementary ordinary differential equations to more advanced topics in a first course of partial differential equations smooth and without difficulties. The book is organized as follows. The core chapters are Chapters 1-7, which deal with the Fourier series, partial differential equations in rectangular, polar, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates, Sturm-Liouvillle theory and the Fourier transform. The later chapters, i.e. Chapters 8-11, include a number of more specialized topics, such as the Laplace and Hankel transforms, introduction to the finite difference numerical methods, discrete Fourier analysis and introduction to the quantum mechanics. Review of some concepts from the ordinary differential equations as well as the tables of the Fourier and the Laplace transforms are written in the Appendix. This book can be considered as a modern interesting textbook for courses on partial differential equations, which will be certainly appreciated by students as well as lecturers.