This article reviews a recently-discovered link between integrable quantum field theories and certain ordinary differential equations in the complex domain. Along the way, aspects of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics are discussed, and some elementary features of the six-vertex model and the Bethe ansatz are explained.

These brief remarks have been prepared in connection with a conference in honor of my thesis advisor, Richard Rochberg.

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In this paper, by considering ordinary differential equation (ODE) as a special case and a starting point of delay differential equation (DDE), we will show that some typical topological methods such as continuation theorems can be applied to detect some dynamics of DDE like periodic solutions. Several problems will be presented.