本书包含10个讲座由Daubechies博士为在小波及其应用1990 cbms-nsf会议主讲人。小波是一种数学发展，许多专家认为它可能会彻底改变信息存储和检索的世界。它们是一种相当简单的数学工具，现在被应用于压缩数据，如指纹、气象卫星照片和医用X射线。以前人们认为这些数据在不丢失关键细节的情况下是不可能压缩的。(This monograph contains 10 lectures presented by Dr. Daubechies as the principal speaker at the 1990 CBMS-NSF Conference on Wavelets and Applications. Wavelets are a mathematical development that many experts think may revolutionize the world of information storage and retrieval. They are a fairly simple mathematical tool now being applied to the compression of data, such as fingerprints, weather satellite photographs, and medical x-rays - that were previously thought to be impossible to condense without losing crucial details.)