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The basic principles of our journal

The basic principles of our journal

The longer the science develops the farther it goes away from its classical sources and principles. The physics gradually becomes the science of use, not explanation of the phenomena and processes, leaving this area of knowledge to the philosophy, and gradually goes from its way towards the engineering sciences. The philosophy is more and more concentrated on the complicated interrelations between the concepts and terms themselves. At the same time in mathematics two its branches became independent and leave each other farther and farther. The tremendous, incredibly complicated and cumbersome tool of so called pure mathematics has been created, and each its branch goes now its own way and becomes a new independent abstract science of the virtual world. The applied mathematics is perfectly separated from this. It is captured by the assumptions, approximations and dogmas established by the physicists in 19^th and in the early and middle 20^th century. Its development more and more inclines to the complication of the numerical tool.

As the result, on the grounds of grandiose breakthroughs achieved in the philosophy of phenomena and processes in 17^th and 18^th centuries, the grandiose breakthrough in the fundamental science was achieved in 19^th century. On its basis in 20^th century the applied and engineering science developed also grandiose success. But by the 21^st century, because of the rupture between the branches of knowledge, between the methods of qualitative and quantitative cognition of the surrounding world, the feed of the applied and engineering sciences by those fundamental gradually fails, the science develops from force of inertia, accumulating the massif of particular solutions and dogmas variations. The last section of the chain – technologies – still develop, but in their development the stagnation is seen already obviously.

We SELF go on working on the classical principles. We strive to penetrate into the essence of phenomenon as it is, irrespective of, how the scientists of such or other school have described it before us. It does not mean a least that we ignore the other scientists’ developments. But if there is a contradiction between the phenomenon and its description, we do not try to cheat the nature. We do not rely on the mathematics per se, but always remember that the mathematics is the tool. However perfect it is, it remains the tool of philosophy and leads the researcher only to that result which was set by the statement of problem. Often we need more mathematical tool than is available, then we develop the new tool, also in frames of classical formalism.

It reflects in our results, and we would like to reflect it in the Aims and Scope of our journal. We do not pursue the complicated formalisms, as is thought fashionable now. We know from our experience that if the statement of problem is correct, the solution is usually simple, as the most phenomena in nature. And this solution does not need the provisos, it itself indicates the way, sometimes unexpected, it itself leads us and shows us the most unexpected relations and regularities, even the nonlinear models become describeable in frames of linear modelling. The solutions transform themselves from one form of the process to another, keeping their continuity of this transformation. At the same time, something thought conventionally obvious appears not so evident, when by way of analytical transitions these solutions lead us to the specific patterns of processes. And the main, these solutions well agree with the experimental practice. They prompt, how one has to transform the experimental conditions in order to reveal the shadowed properties best. We need not give examples here. You will see many of them in our works, in the most different areas of research. So, if we try to outline the field of our publications, it will be quite wide. You can find here the pure mathematical papers on the number theory, theory of non-conformal mapping, on the development of differential and integral calculus. At the same time we will give an important place to the both mathematical and experimental research in acoustics, mechanics, electromagnetism, circuit theory, geophysics and many other disciplines. We will publish also the papers concerning the philosophy of natural phenomena research, the interconnection of knowledge branches, interpenetration and interconditioning of the separate knowledge branches and knowledge about the separate revelations of the nature per se.

The electronic version of our journal begins with the second volume. The first volume was published as the printed version in 1994 ( p.h. Eney Ltd., Kharkov, Ukraine, 118 pp., English, ISBN 5 – 7700 – 0403 – 7). In the nearest future we will put to the archive its electronic version. The first issue of the second volume is quite small in the meanwhile and consists of four papers. But these papers do not complete it. We use the wonderful scope of electronic editions to publish the materials operatively, and by the middle of 2002 we will add the new papers to this issue. So, visiting our journal from time to time, you will permanently find here some new publications.