The volume contains the text of the invited lectures presented at the International Symposium on "Nonlinear Evolution Equations Solvable by the Inverse Spectral Transform", that took place at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome from June 15 through June 18, 1977. It introduces an important mathematical technique based on the spectral transform and relevant to the solution of nonlinear evolution equations. These texts will be of particular value to theoretical physicists (in plasma, nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, solid state and elementary particles); applied mathematicians interested in nonlinear evolution equations; and pure mathematicians interested in algebraic and differential geometry.

Spectral Transform and Solitons