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In the last decades, significant progress has been made on the mathematical aspect of classical linear and nonlinear thermoelasticity. The aim of this book is to give a (first) comprehensive survey that explores the past results and presents the updated developments. The classical thermoelastic equations describe the elastic and the thermal behavior of elastic heat-conductive media. The equations are a hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system that consists of the equations of elasticity and the heat equation, both hyperbolic and parabolic effects are uncountered in the system. This book systematically studies mathematical topics such as global existence, blow-up and time-asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem and initial-boundary value problems in both linear and nonlinear thermoelasticity. The whole book consists of nine chapters. Chapters 2-4 deal with the linear equations and Chapters 5-7 are devoted to the study of nonlinear equations. The authors discuss in detail the global existence and the time-asymptotic behavior of solutions. Chapter 8 discusses contact problems. The book will certainly be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the field of evolution equations in thermoelasticity.