"Wish Rings" is about a boy named Majunior who learns of his great powers. His powers are brought on by the death of his parents. After Majunior masters his great powers of fire, he stops all sorts of evil that tries to take over earth. Then he uses the great powers of the Mighty Barbarian, which lives within mystical rings, known as the Wish Rings, to undo the damage done to earth by evil. All through Majunior's journey to save earth, he meets new and more powerful people who share their knowledge with him.

This book traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics, physics, and engineering. Interchanges between these fields during the last fifteen years have led to a number of advances in applications such as image compression, turbulence, machine vision, radar, and earthquake prediction.

This book contains the seminal papers that presented the ideas from which wavelet theory evolved, as well as those major papers that developed the theory into its current form. These papers originated in a variety of...

This volume is dedicated to John Benedetto. It seems just yesterday that we celebrated his 60th birthday in a memorable conference in College Park. Yet that was October of 1999, and already more than six years have passed. But John is still too young to be fully honored by a single foreword, or even a singlevolume, thatattemptstosummarizetheimpactofhisworkonharmonic analysis, his students, and his coworkers.Given his continuing high (and even increasing) level of activities, his list of "lifetime achievements" is surely far from complete. Even so, we will make an attempt in this foreword to...