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His work on wavelets is seminal and astonishing.

He has not stopped working, ever; with recent contributions to the detection of gravitational waves and the theory of quasicrystals.

I'm sad not to know him already.
And a very nice and approachable fellow. His class on signal processing was awesome.
Ironically, was actually contemplating implementing wavelets approach in our project, so very timely!
Does anyone know of a good introduction to wavelets?

Books or papers; let's say at the level of math heavy CS/undergrad math degree.

"A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing" by Stephan Mallat is pretty good if you've got a background in signal processing at the undergrad EE level. Math heavy CS may require some recollection of linear algebra and numerical algorithms.
The classic is Ten Lectures on Wavelets by Ingrid Daubechies. If anyone can recommend a more recent book, I'd be interested too.