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MathSciNet review: 1568025
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Book Information:

Author: Charles K. Chui
Title: An introduction to wavelets
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York 1992, x + 264 pp., US$49.95. ISBN 0-12-174584-8.

Author: Ingrid Daubechies
Title: Ten lectures on wavelets
Additional book information: CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics, SIAM, 1992, 357 pp., ISBN 0-89871-274-2.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Yves Meyer
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 350-360
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00363-X