Signals, Sound, and Sensation. (book reviews)

William M Hartmann. 647 pp American Institute of Physics, 1997 $80

The preeminent importance of vision in human communication can hardly be overstated, nevertheless it perhaps obscures the importance of the acoustical dimension. The thought of our interactions with the world of unhurt is the concern of psychoacoustics, which draws in succession ideas from mathematics, physics, physiology and psychology Although this discipline traces its origin to work in the last hundred years by Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Rayleigh and others, it has greatly benefited in new years from computers and high-quality