Nowadays there exists a well established theory for semilinear equations in space dimension 1 and recently also the situation of quasilinear equations still in dimension 1 has been understood.
During the last years some results have been obtained also for higher dimensional domains, but only for semilinear equations.
In this colloquium I will review the classical theory presenting the main ideas and then I will present some of the most recent results trying to put into evidence the main tools that have been developed in order to deal with the problem.
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