Table of contents : Introduction....Pages 1-7 Basic theory and representation formulas....Pages 8-25 Applications of Abel's original integral equation: Determination of potentials....Pages 26-34 Applications of a transformed abel integral equation....Pages 35-63 Smoothing properties of the abel operators....Pages 64-82 Existence and uniqueness theorems....Pages 83-94 Relations between abel transform and other integral transforms....Pages 95-128 Nonlinear abel integral equations of second kind....Pages 129-153 Illposedness and stabilization of linear abel integral equations of first kind....Pages 154-181 On numerical treatment of first kind abel integral equations....Pages 182-194