The theory of one-parameter semigroups of linear operators on Banach spaces started in the first half of this century, acquired its core in 1948 with the Hille-Yosida generation theorem, and attained its first apex with the 1957 edition of Semigroups and Functional Analysis by E. Hille and R.S. Phillips. In the 1970s and 80s, thanks to the efforts of many different schools, the theory reached a certain state of perfection, which is well represented in the monographs by E.B. Davies [Dav80], J.A. Goldstein [Gol85], A. Pazy [Paz83], and others.