Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics

This volume presents the proceedings of a series of lectures hosted by the Math­ ematics Department of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 22-24, 1995, under the title "Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics" . While the relevance of partial differential equations to problems in differen­ tial geometry has been recognized since the early days of the latter subject, the idea that differential equations of differential-geometric origin can be useful in the formu