[extropy-chat] Women in Mathematics throughout history

[Technotranscendence]

On Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:21 AM Amara Graps amara at amara.com wrote:
> and if you have not heard of Ingrid Daubechies,
> then shame on you
> http://www.pacm.princeton.edu/~ingrid/
>
> The field of wavelets, that is, that important and
> incredibly useful complement to Fourier analysis,
> would not be the field of wavelets if it were not for
> Daubechies (think about that, the next time you have
> data stored in your standard JPEG-2000 format
> http://datacompression.info/JPEG2000.shtml),
> or receive compressed data over your
> telecommunications network.

Not only have I heard of her, I've read one of her books (IIRC, it was
titled something like "Ten Lecture on Wavelets") and I actually dropped
her name in job interview a few years ago.:)

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html