advice on reading material

Hi,

I was wondering what book do you people recommend for learning Wavelet
analysis. Also I appreciate if you answer the same question for
differential equations and their numerical methods of solution.
I need them to be easily written and at the same time, profound.

I just recently read the book "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by
Rick Lyons and enjoyed it a lot. I appreciate if your suggestions are oon
the same style of book: easy to read and at the same time, profound.


I heard that Strang's wavelets book is good. However, I just now went to
Amazon and many of the Customer Reviews for Strang's book are not good.
Therefore I don't know what to do.

Please advise
thanks
Pooya

pooyapakarian skrev:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what book do you people recommend for learning Wavelet
> analysis.

Gilbert Strang co-authored a book on wavelets. I haven't read this
perticular book, but a few others by Strang. See below.

> Also I appreciate if you answer the same question for
> differential equations and their numerical methods of solution.
> I need them to be easily written and at the same time, profound.

Ouch! I think you'll have to search hard to find one. DEs are
notoriousin that there are tailor-made numerical methods for
almost every nuance of problem; there are few generic methods
available. FEM and difference equations are probably what come
closest to generic methods for DEs, but these things are
hardly easy to read.

> I just recently read the book "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by
> Rick Lyons and enjoyed it a lot. I appreciate if your suggestions are oon
> the same style of book: easy to read and at the same time, profound.
>
> I heard that Strang's wavelets book is good. However, I just now went to
> Amazon and many of the Customer Reviews for Strang's book are not good.
> Therefore I don't know what to do.

Strang's books on linear algebra and applied maths are very easy to
read, for maths books. Not thorough enough in the details to be a
sole book for a course, but brilliant support literature.

Why not get Strang's book on wavelet on loan from a library (I think
he even may have written something on FEM as well...) and have
a look for yourself?

Rune

pooyapakarian wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what book do you people recommend for learning Wavelet
> analysis. Also I appreciate if you answer the same question for
> differential equations and their numerical methods of solution.
> I need them to be easily written and at the same time, profound.
> 
> I just recently read the book "Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by
> Rick Lyons and enjoyed it a lot. I appreciate if your suggestions are oon
> the same style of book: easy to read and at the same time, profound.
> 
> 
> I heard that Strang's wavelets book is good. However, I just now went to
> Amazon and many of the Customer Reviews for Strang's book are not good.
> Therefore I don't know what to do.
> 
> Please advise
> thanks
> Pooya

Anthony Teolis: "Computational Signal Processing with Wavelets"
Birkh�user Boston 1998, ISBN 0-8176-3909-8

After a glance into one of the highly mathematical books around Wavelet
theory, I enjoyed reading this one.
Although it contains a lot of mathematics, which might be able to discourage
you, it's rather understandable (isn't it?).
Lot of practical stuff inside, including Matlab code for graphical approach.

Bernhard