Secondary
Calculus: a new area of mathematics
The history of Babylon's tower told in the Bible explains
the fate of the greatest scientific project of that time
which failed after a direct divine intervention. More
precisely, when God realized that the construction of the
tower was too much advanced, He mixed the languages of the
builders and consequently the work could not be completed.
But such a story has not ended yet. Indeed some stubborn
people who was curious about the structure of the Universe
invented a new common language which now
goes under the name of "Mathematics". Such a language
helped us a lot in understanding many details of the divine
creation. But meanwhile God was not idle and now an then He
applied the old trick of mixing languages within
Mathematics itself. Such a process can be
explained more scientifically by invoking the laws of
Thermodynamics, namely the second one, which inevitably
affects the scientific progress in general and shows itself
in the most bright way in the mathematical branches of
Natural Sciences. The modern mixed state of the
mathematical language and the deriving form it chaos is
perfectly shown by the current A.M.S subject
classification. Not to speak of the almost total
impotence before the non-linear problems and the screaming
mathematical ugliness of the current theory of
quanta.
Diffeotopy is a new area of Mathematics
generated by the attempts to find some path in the
multitude of thousands concrete facts growing around the
non-linear PDEs and in all those areas of Mathematics
itself, Mechanics, Physics, etc., where they are applied
and are indispensable. Diffeotopy began to take a concrete
shape 20-25 years ago, and now it has its own
precise methodology, paradigm and philosophy. In a
schematic way diffeotopy can be defined as the study of the
natural structures of Differential
Calculus - primary and secondary ones - and their
applications to problems of Mathematics itself and
mathematical models from Natural Sciences. In this
sense Differential Geometry and Topology, Mechanics of
Continua Media, Field Theory, Control Theory, etc.,
constitute objects for diffeotopy - obviously not to speak
of the non-linear PDEs themselves. Undoubtedly such a list
is not complete and as time goes by it will be enlarged.
For instance, it can be sharply foreseen that in due time
Algebraic Geometry will take part of it - but understood as
Differential Geometry over algebras of algebraic functions.
And this will happen only after sheaves, schemes and other
palliative means have been selected for extinction by the
natural Darwinian process for concepts.
From a materialistic viewpoint diffeotopy represents a
natural synthesis of many sectors of modern Mathematics
among which one can find PDEs themselves, Commutative and
Homological Algebra, Algebraic and Differential Topology,
Differential Geometry, Lie Group and Algebras, and other
things. Therefore the pathway to diffeotopy is not easy.
But on the other hand a steady and safe progress in the key
areas of Natural Sciences is not possible without a
suitable development of diffeotopy.