The present book builds upon an earlier work of J. Hale, Theory of Func­ tional Differential Equations published in 1977. We have tried to maintain the spirit of that book and have retained approximately one-third of the material intact. One major change was a complete new presentation of lin­ ear systems (Chapters 6 | Introduction to Functional Differential Equations by Jack K. Hale, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters