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A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier (1994)
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Bartusiak, Marcia F., Burke, Barbara, Chaikin, Andrew, Greenwood, Addison, Heppenheimer, T.A., Hoffman, Michelle, Holzman, David, Maggio, Elizabeth J., Moffat, Anne Simon. "7 The Mathematical Microscope: Waves, Wavelets, and Beyond." A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1994.

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A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier

Meyer, Y. 1993. Wavelets: algorithms & applications. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia. (This is an English translation of Les Ondelettes Algorithmes et Applications, Meyer, Y., Armond Colin, Paris, 1992.)

Pierce, J. R., and A. M. Noll. 1990. Signals — The science of telecommunications. Scientific American Library, New York.

Poincaré, H. 1956. Oeuvres de Henri Poincaré, vol. 11, Gauthier-Villars, Paris.


Strichartz, R. 1993. How to make wavelets, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 100, no. 6, June-July 1993, pp. 539–556.

Strömberg, J.-O. 1981. A modified Franklin system and higher-order spline systems on Rn as unconditional bases for Hardy spaces. Conference on Harmonic Analysis in Honor of Antoni Zygmund, vol. II, pp. 475–494; W. Beckner, A. Caldéron, R. Fefferman, and P. Jones, eds. University of Chicago, 1983.

RECOMMENDED READING

Books Accessible to the General Public

Gratten-Guinness, I., and J.R. Ravetz. 1972. Joseph Fourier, 1768–1830. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.


Herivel, John. 1975. Joseph Fourier—The Man and the Physicist. Clarendon Press, Oxford.


Körner, T.W. 1988. Fourier Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

(This is a book for mathematicians, but it includes delightful sections that require no mathematical background, such as the description of the laying of transatlantic cables, where "half a million pounds was being staked on the correctness of the solution of a partial differential equation." )


Pierce, John R., and A. Michael Noll. 1990. Signals—The Science of Telecommunications. Scientific American Library, New York.

A Sampling Of Technical Books

Benedetto, J., and M. Frazier (eds.) 1993. Wavelets: Mathematics and Applications. CRC Press, Boca Raton.


Chui, C.K. (ed.). 1992. Wavelets-A Tutorial in Theory and Applications. Academic Press, Boston.


Daubechies, I. 1992. Ten Lectures on Wavelets. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia.


Farge, M., J.C.R. Hunt, and J.C. Vassilicos (eds.). 1993. Wavelets, Fractals, and Fourier Transforms. Clarendon Press, Oxford.


Körner, T.W. 1988. Fourier Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.


Meyer, Y. 1990. Ondelettes et Opérateurs. Three volumes. Hermann, Paris. (English translation published by Cambridge University Press in 1992.)

Meyer, Y. 1992 Wavelets and Operators, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York. (This is a translation of Ondelettes et Operateurs, Hermann, Paris, 1990.)

Meyer, Y. 1993. Wavelets: algorithms & applications. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia.


Ruskai, B. (ed.) 1992. Wavelets and Their Applications. Jones and Bartlett, Boston.

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