Number is one of the most fundamental concepts not only in mathematics, but in
general natural science as well. It may be primary even in comparison with such global
categories as time, space, substance, matter, and ¯eld. That is why editing the ¯rst
issue of the journal "Hypercomlex numbers in geometry and physics" the editorial board
sincerely hopes that articles not only on numbers in general, but primarily the works that
reveal their organic connection with the real world will ¯nd here their true scope.