Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering

1. Introduction 2. Inverse scattering for the Korteweg-de Vries equation 3. General inverse scattering in one dimension 4. Inverse scattering for integro-differential equations 5. Inverse scattering in two dimensions 6. Inverse scattering in multidimensions 7. The Painleve equations 8. Discussion and open problems Appendix A: Remarks on Riemann-Hilbert problems Appendix B: Remarks on problems References Subject index Author index.