  We provide a pedagogical introduction to some aspects of integrability,
dualities and deformations of physical systems in 0+1 and in 1+1 dimensions. In
particular, we concentrate on the T-duality of point particles and strings as
well as on the Ruijsenaars duality of finite many-body integrable models, we
review the concept of the integrability and, in particular, of the Lax
integrability and we analyze the basic examples of the Yang-Baxter deformations
of non-linear sigma-models. The central mathematical structure which we
describe in detail is the E-model which is the dynamical system exhibiting all
those three phenomena simultaneously. The last part of the paper contains
original results, in particular a formulation of sufficient conditions for
strong integrability of non-degenerate E-models.
