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A.K. Peters, Wellesley, Mass, ©1998, 1998. 2nd Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 2nd. ed., 3rd printing ; xx, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9781568810720, 1568810725 ; OCLC 38048388 ; color pictorials boards, no dustjacket ; Contents: To the reader -- Acknowledgements -- The world according to Wavelets -- Prologue -- Fourier analysis : a poem transforms our world -- Seeking new tools -- A new language acquires a grammar -- Applications -- Beyond wavelets -- Beyond plain English -- Apologia -- The Fourier transform -- The convergence of Fourier series and the stability of the Solar System -- Computing Fourier coefficients with integrals -- THe fast Fourier transform -- The continuous wavelet transform -- Orthogonality and scalar products -- multiresolution -- the fast wavlet transform -- Wavelets in two dimensions -- Pyramid algorithms of Burt and Adelson -- Multiwavelets - The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Time-Frequency decompositions -- Probabilitiy, Heisenberg and…
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