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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0744.00020.] This synopsis and survey for the general applied mathematician and physicist sketches interesting numerical aspects and observations on bases of wavelets, multi-wavelets, etc., as instruments for creating fast algorithms, with emphasis on the matrix-theoretical contradistinction to classical bases in the application to integral operators. The material is based on the author's 1990 computer-science Yale University thesis and subsequent papers as well as on papers of 1986-90 by \textit{I. Daubechies} [cf. Ten lectures on wavelets (1992; Zbl 0776.42018)] and co-workers. Topics touched upon include stability and truncation of orthogonal expansions, time-frequency localization, construction and properties of wavelet bases, Haar basis, multiresolution analysis, Strang's method, multi-wavelets, discrete bases, Galerkin and Nyström methods, Schulz matrix inversion, sparse \(LU\), short comments on differential operators. The representation is elementary and without prerequisites. Missing mathematical background details (e.g. differentiability conditions on weight functions, the concept of a Schauder basis, etc.) can be filled in. Controversial points (such as those in a book review by \textit{Y. Meyer}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 28, 350-360 (1993)) are not considered.