Notation.- Preliminaries.- Some Fixed Point Theorems.- Local and Global Inversion Theorems.- Leray-Schauder Topological Degree.- An Outline of Critical Points.- Bifurcation Theory.- Elliptic Problems and Functional Analysis.- Problems with A Priori Bounds.- Asymptotically Linear Problems.- Asymmetric Nonlinearities.- Superlinear Problems.- Quasilinear Problems.- Stationary States of Evolution Equations.- Appendix A Sobolev Spaces.- Exercises.-...