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Title: Wavelets and Filter Banks by Gilbert Strang, Truong Nguyen ISBN: 0-9614088-7-1 Publisher: Wellesley Cambridge Pr Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: "overall a good text"!!! you gotta be kidding me
Comment: I just can't believe these reviews: "overall a good text" - doh! I was unfortunate enough to take a course about wavelets for which the professor used this book as the main text (btw the course was offered by Prof. Truong Nguyen, and yes he is one of the authors). After 3 months of painful !struggle! with this book I was sure about only one thing: I could not learn anything about wavelets. First of all, there is no logical flow, as a matter of fact there is no flow of any kind. The authors just leap forward and backward leaving lots of unanswered questions, which is in my humble opinion, a very annoying thing that should not happen while using a text book. Clear statements about what the hell is going on are very rare. Most of the time you are left with vague statements which tell only part of the story. Right now I am in the third year of my ph.d and I am yet to meet an electrical engineer who thinks this book is actually useful in some sense. Don't waste your money on it. Start with "Wavelet and Wavelet Transforms" Burrus, once you get the feel of it check the books that math departments use for teaching wavelets.
Rating: 1
Summary: Engaging style but not written for the unwashed.
Comment: 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).
Rating: 5
Summary: Engineers need math, but on their terms.
Comment: 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.
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Title: Wavelets and Subband Coding by Martin Vetterli, Jelena Kovacevic ISBN: 0130970808 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 21 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Wavelets and Wavelets Transforms by C. Sidney Burrus, C. Sidney Burrus, Ramesh A. Gopinath ISBN: 0134896009 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Ten Lectures on Wavelets (Cbms-Nsf Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics, No 61) by Ingrid Daubechies ISBN: 0898712742 Publisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $64.00 |
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Title: A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing by Stephane Mallat ISBN: 012466606X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: A Primer on Wavelets and Their Scientific Applications by James S. Walker, Steve G. Krantz ISBN: 0849382769 Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 26 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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