“Wavelets: Seeing the Forest and the Trees” was written by science writer Dana Mackenzie, with the assistance of Drs. Ingrid Daubechies, Daniel Kleppner, Stéphane Mallat, Yves Meyer, Mary Beth Ruskai, and Guido Weiss for Beyond Discovery™: The Path from Research to Human Benefit, a project of the National Academy of Sciences.

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