This volume opens with a paper by V.P. Havin that presents a comprehensive survey of the work of mathematician S.Ya. Khavinson. It includes a complete bibliography, previously unpublished, of 163 items, and twelve peer-reviewed research and expository papers by leading mathematicians, including the joint paper by Khavinson and T.S. Kuzina. The emphasis is on the usage of tools from functional analysis, potential theory, algebra, and topology.