Wavelets Made Easy

by Yves Nievergelt

Book Overview

Originally published in 1999, Wavelets Made Easy offers a lucid and concise explanation of mathematical wavelets. Written at the level of a first course in calculus and linear algebra, its accessible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817640614
• ISBN13: 9780817640613
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Now there's a misnomer!

There's not much easy in this book; it's neither intuitive nor graphical. Instead, you're guided through a rough introduction and then given authoritative proofs of all the relevant material. The book is quick, though, and doesn't waste time on non-applicable topics (save for a rehashing of Fourier theory that seems out of context). If you're interested in getting a fast but authoritative introduction to the math required for wavelets, this is a good pick. Just don't rely on the title to mean anything.

Realmente Wavelets Hecho Fácil

Para los que recién comienzan a investigar el tema en forma autodidacta es excelente y fácil de comprender.

Finally, Wavelets are explained !!

Thank Yves. I enrolled in an online graduate course for wavelets and could not understand the book and the professor liked to give very few problems with very little help to ensure that he would not have to grade many problems and to ensure that we would not understand the material well. I searched the web and checked out about 10 wavelet book in the library and still I could not get a clue on wavelets in how they actually worked and the mathematics behind them. But, ... with Yves' book, ... it does still take some mental effort, but his book is readable and the homework assignments are doable without an instructor leading you or mis-leading you as the case may be. Wavelets applications fascinate me and without Yves book, I still wouldn't have a clue.

Excellent.

The book is excellent in the sense that it has the right mixture of both theoretic and practical aspects. The portions on Fourier transforms also are apt for a newcomer to understand the theory. Of course, the first impression formed by seeing the title is that the matter inside would be plain english without any mathematics. However, the mathematics in the book has been kept elementary and in places where that wasn't possible, a thorough introduction has been provided.The applications are explicitly mentioned and algorithms are written down clearly, instead of simply providing the theory and leaving the implementation for the student to figure out for himself. For the less mathematically oriented, the exercises at the end of each chapter will provide a good intuition to what will be encountered in the consequent sections. Once this book is read, other books that concentrate on specific aspects of wavelets will appear to be more understandable.

wavelet made easy

This is an excellent book. Wavelet IS a quite advanced concept in Math. The author did a good job to minimize the math backgrond needed to understand wavelet. DON'T BLAM author because you have way too little math training.