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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 138408, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2010/138408 Research Article Chebyshev Wavelet Method for Numerical Solution of Fredholm Integral Equations of the First Kind Hojatollah Adibi and Pouria Assari Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, No. 424, Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to Hojatollah Adibi, adibih@aut.ac.ir Received 10 September 2009; Accepted 11 May 2010 Academic Editor: Victoria Vampa Copyright q 2010 H. Adibi and P. Assari. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A computational method for solving Fredholm integral equations of the first kind is presented. The method utilizes Chebyshev wavelets constructed on the unit interval as basis in Galerkin method and reduces solving the integral equation to solving a system of algebraic equations. The properties of Chebyshev wavelets are used to make the wavelet coefficient matrices sparse which eventually leads to the sparsity of the coefficients matrix of obtained system. Finally, numerical examples are presented to show the validity and efficiency of the technique. 1. Introduction Many problems of mathematical physics can be stated in the form of integral equations. These equations also occur as reformulations of other mathematical problems such as partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations. Therefore, the study of integral equations and methods for solving them are very useful in applicat