The World According to Wavelets - The Story of a Mathematical Technique in the Making, Second Edition

This best-selling book introduces a broad audience including scientists and engineers working in a variety of fields as well as mathematicians from other subspecialties to one of the most active new areas of applied mathematics and the story of its discovery and development. Organized in "hypertext fashion," the book tells a story of scientific discovery with separate brief entries for technical terms and explicit appendices in a section called "Beyond Plain English."

List of contents

To the Reader, Acknowledgments, PART I The World According to Wavelets, PART I1 Beyond Plain English, PART I11 Appendices, Further Reading, Wavelet Software and Electronic Resources, References, Index

About the author

Barbara Burke Hubbard

Summary

This best-selling book introduces a broad audience including scientists and engineers working in a variety of fields as well as mathematicians from other subspecialties to one of the most active new areas of applied mathematics and the story of its discovery and development

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Burke Hubbard, Barbara Burke Hubbard, Hubbard Barbara Burke
• Publisher: Peters, Wellesley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781568810720
• ISBN: 978-1-56881-072-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 594 g
• Illustrations: m. Abb.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Analysis; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; SCIENCE / Physics / General, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, MATHEMATICS / Mathematical Analysis, SCIENCE / Waves & Wave Mechanics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research, Calculus & mathematical analysis, Applied mathematics, Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics), Applied physics, Calculus and mathematical analysis, Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)