Mathematical analysis of functions of a non-Archimedean variable. A specialized mathematical tool for the description of the structural levels of geomedia (Q2801328)

The book is devoted to a kind of nonstandard analysis (the author prefers to call his objects ``non-Archimedean'' though they are far from standard notions of non-Archimedean analysis) intended for the use in mechanics and geology. The main notion is that of ``essential numbers'' defined as equivalence classes of fundamental sequences indexed by the set of extended natural numbers containing infinitely big elements.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the above framework, the author develops basic notions of analysis (limits, series, continuous functions, derivatives and integrals, calculus of variations, multi-dimensional spaces). Possible applications to mechanics of rocks and granular media are only declared -- the author refers to his paper in mechanics journals and the book, \textit{A. F. Revuzhenko} [Mechanics of granular media. Berlin: Springer (2006; Zbl 1126.74001)].NEWLINENEWLINEThe concepts expounded in the author's earlier publications (and, in a more detailed form, in the book under review) were criticized by a group of well-known mathematicians; see \textit{E. A. Gutman} et al. [Sib. Zh. Ind. Mat. 13, No. 1, 55--58 (2010; Zbl 1240.03059)]. In their opinion, Revuzhenko's approach is a primitivization of Robinson's nonstandard analysis, in which essential elements of the latter are lost, so that the resulting concepts of analysis are easy generalizations of the classical ones.