1. Polymers and Polymer Solutions
2. General Description of Long Chains, Universality, Critical Phenomena, and Scaling Laws
3. Mathematical Models of Chains: Static Properties
4. Computer Experiments
5. Osmotic Pressure and Density
6. Radiation Scattering
7. Study of the Structure of a Solution by Small-Angle Scattering
8. Repulsive Chains - Old Theories
9. The Grand Canonical Formalism
10. Standard Continuous Model and Perturbation Calculations
11. Relations between Chain Theory and Field Theory: Laplace-De Gennes Transformation
12. Renormalization and Criticality
13. Polymers in Solution in Good Solvents: Theoretical Results
14. Partially Attractive Chains: Theoretical Results
15. Polymers in Good Solvents: Experimental Results
16. Partially Attractive Chains: Experimental Results