  The Drury-Arveson space $H^2_d$, also known as symmetric Fock space or the
$d$-shift space, is a Hilbert function space that has a natural $d$-tuple of
operators acting on it, which gives it the structure of a Hilbert module. This
survey aims to introduce the Drury-Arveson space, to give a panoramic view of
the main operator theoretic and function theoretic aspects of this space, and
to describe the universal role that it plays in multivariable operator theory
and in Pick interpolation theory.
