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Wavelet analysis is a new branch of mathematics widely applied in signal analysis, image processing, numerical analysis, etc. The name wavelets means small waves (the sinusoids used in Fourier analysis are ‘big waves’), and in short, a wavelet is an oscillation that decays quickly.

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Hariharan, G. (2019). Wavelet Analysis—An Overview. In: Wavelet Solutions for Reaction–Diffusion Problems in Science and Engineering. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9960-3_2

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