I once heard the book by Meyer (1993) described as a vulgarization of wavelets. While this is
true in one sense of the word that of making a sub ject popular (Meyer's book is one of the
early works written with the non specialist in mind) the implication seems to be that such an
attempt some how cheapens or coarsens the subject. I have to disagree that popularity goes
hand-in-hand with debasement. is certainly a beautiful theory underlying wavelet analysis
there is While there plenty of beauty left over for the applications of wavelet methods. This
book is also written for the non-specialist and therefore its main thrust is toward wavelet
applications. Enough theory is given to help the reader gain a basic understanding of how
wavelets work in practice but much of the theory can be presented using only a basic level of
mathematics. Only one theorem is for mally stated in this book with only one proof. And these
are only included to introduce some key concepts in a natural way.
