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Book Review

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Book Information:

Author: David F. Walnut
Title: An introduction to wavelet analysis
Additional book information: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, Birkhäuser, Boston--Basel--Berlin, 2002, xx+449 pp., ISBN 0-8176-3962-4, $69.95$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Palle E. T. Jorgensen
Affiliation: University of Iowa
Email: jorgen@math.uiowa.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 421-427
Published electronically: April 17, 2003
Additional Notes: We are pleased to thank Brian Treadway for excellent typsetting, and helpful suggestions.
Work supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants DMS-9987777 and DMS-0139473(FRG)
Review copyright: © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society