Wavelets and Filter Banks [Hardcover]

Gilbert Strang (Author), Truong Nguyen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0961408871 | ISBN-13: 978-0961408879 | Publication Date: October 1, 1996 | Edition: 2nd

This text has had an overwhelming response from readers. Lauded by some as a marriage between math and engineering, the text features useful and balanced explanations of wavelets for both engineers and mathematicians. The explanations of difficult topics are informal and very approachable, yet rigor is not sacrificed in the process. Also included in Wavelets and Filter Banks are many examples from the MATLAB Wavelet® Toolbox.

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Book Description

This book explains wavelets to both engineers and mathematicians. It approaches the subject with a major emphasis on the filter structures attached to wavelets. The book is ideal as an introduction to the principles of wavelets and as a reference for the analysis and applications.

About the Author

Gilbert Strang is a Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, of the University of Oxford, UK. His current research interests include linear algebra, wavelets and filter banks, applied mathematics, and engineering mathematics. He is the author or co-author of six textbooks and has published a monograph with George Fix titled “An Analysis of the Finite Element Method.” Professor Strang served as SIAM’s president from 1999-2000, chaired the US National Committee on Mathematics from 2003–2004, and won the Neumann Medal of the US Association of Computational Mechanics in 2005. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 520 pages
• Publisher: Wellesley College; 2nd edition (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961408871
• ISBN-13: 978-0961408879
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #716,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gilbert Strang is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. He was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. His doctorate was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Strang has published a monograph with George Fix, "An Analysis of the Finite Element Method", and has authored six widely used textbooks. He served as President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000 and he is Chair of the U.S. National Committee on Mathematics for 2003-2004.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars UT PA - CAI Coordinator, October 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Wavelets and Filter Banks (Hardcover)

I am presently full time staff and part-time teacher electronics lab and doing research in image processing. I need a new way or new material so as to use wavelets for my research project. It is one of the most readable texts that I have encountered. I was looking for a very applied book and this seems a good one. There is one thing that I found disappointing. I found that in order to understand some things I had to jump to sections further into the book. Ideas are introduced and are not fully explained until later in the book. This leaves the reader puzzled and sometimes very confused when given the first exposure to a topic. I think the development of ideas could have been more cohesive. All in all, it's not a bad book as a reference

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Engaging style but not written for the unwashed., May 31, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Wavelets and Filter Banks (Hardcover)

My first reaction to Professor Strang's superficially friendly, "just us folks", "you're gonna love this result" style was positive until I realized I wasn't absorbing anything. Could it be me? Well, yes, it is. I just am not a brilliant co-worker who can grasp Strang's giant leaps of intuition and say, "Wow, Gil, I see what you are saying, that really is neat!" This book is written in bursts of enthusiasm with little emphasis on details (like indices on summation operators) and little continuity. It appears to have a layered structure where Strang breezes through an introduction dropping all sorts of sophisticated concepts along with "don't worry, it will all become clear later". Unfortunately at the next layer Strang does not connect up with previous droppings but simply drops more. I am amazed that Matlab would attach this book to their wavelet toolbox, which by the way has a beautiful user's manual. An alternative to this book, "Wavelet and Wavelet Transforms" by Sidney Burrus and friends, is written in a clear step-by-step manner with attention to details (and with a reasonable step size). Upon reading Burrus's book I could go back to Strang's and figure out some of the things he was so pleased with (other than himself).

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engineers need math, but on their terms., July 7, 2002

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This review is from: Wavelets and Filter Banks (Hardcover)

At many US universities, math departments offer service courses in math for the engineers, and there is a periodic discussion of the curriculum. One difficulty is that the two sides speak different languages;-- in math, it is linear algebra, calculus...,- and in engineering, signals, high-pass/low-pass filters, downsampling/upsampling, filter bank, polyphase matrix...A wonderful feature of the Strang-Nguyen book is that it speaks both languages. In this way it is refreshing, and it stands out

in a class of its own. It has been tested in courses for engineers, and stood the test. From what I hear, it is equally popular in the two cultures, math and engineering.