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This book intends to give a short review of some topics on quasilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is divided in three chapters and it has as a main goal to outline ideas and significant results on the subject due to S. Klainerman, D. Christodoulou and M. Machedon among others. In the first Chapter, the author mentions the same results and outlines a proof on the propagation of singularities for the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear PDE of order \(m\). Local existence results are also presented. In Chapter two he studies the geometry of Minkowski's space in order to obtain energy estimates associated to the invariance of the wave operator under a family of transformations. Then, a proof of a global existence result for a quasilinear wave equation with small data is given. Finally, the author outlines the method of conformal compactification due to D. Christodoulou. In Chapter three Strichartz's estimates for the wave equation are considered. Then, he obtains estimates for null forms concluding the chapter with a result on the regularity of global solutions of the semilinear wave equation in Minkowski's space with small data.