Prior to the MaToMUVI conference Philosophy and Mathematics of Uncertainty and Vagueness organised at CLE (UniCamp, Brazil), there will be a summer school for young researchers and undergaduate students. I will give a short tutorial on MV-algebras (seen in a broad perspective). I (hand-wrote) some notes that can be downloaded here. Take it cum grano salis, they are just notes I have used to follow a line of thoughts, still I believe they can be useful to the audience as they contain both specific references to the results presented and some good books giving an updated account of the subject.