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The paper contains a survey of certain contemporary concepts and results connected with the geometric foundations of the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations. At the base of the account is situated the geometry and analysis on jet spaces, finite and infinite.

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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Problemy Geometrii, Vol. 11, pp. 89–134, 1980.

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Vinogradov, A.M. Geometry of nonlinear differential equations. J Math Sci 17, 1624–1649 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01084594

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