On May 23rd, King Harald V of Norway, will present the Abel Prize to French mathematician Yves Meyer. Each year, the prize is awarded to a laureate for "outstanding work in the field of mathematics".

Wavelets provide new capabilities for analyzing real-time signals. This introductory article provides an overview and presents the basic mechanisms involved in wavelets. In many signal processing ...

In many fields of study, from science and engineering to economics and psychology, we need to analyze data so that we can discover underlying patterns and information. A common way of doing this is to ...

Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for development of a theory with applications ranging from watching movies to detecting gravitational waves French mathematician Yves Meyer has won the 2017 Abel Prize ...

The French mathematician Yves Meyer, a self-described “nomad” who has made deep contributions to the many subfields through which he has roamed over the past half-century, received the 2017 Abel Prize ...

Frenchman wins prestigious prize for theory that links maths, information technology and computer science French mathematician Yves Meyer was today awarded the 2017 Abel Prize for his work on wavelets ...

One cold, snowy day, Ingrid Daubechies saw a wealth of hidden meaning in a confused jumble of wiggly lines. Now Daubechie's wavelets are some of the hottest math around. I was in Montreal at the time, ...