Name: Quantum Computing for Everyone
ISBN: 9780262039253

Quantum Computing for Everyone

Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics with computer science. It incorporates some of the most stunning ideas of physics from the twentieth century into an entirely new way of thinking about computation. Quantum Computing is appearing more and more in the news: China teleported a qubit from earth to a satellite; Shor's algorithm has put our current encryption methods at risk; quantum key distribution will make encryption safe again; Grover's algorithm will speed-up data searches. But what does all this really mean? How does it all work? This book explains quantum computing to readers comfortable with high school mathematics. This book is aimed at the general reader. It only requires high school mathematics, but still manages to thoroughly explain most of the standard topics. These include quantum teleportation, superdense coding, error correction and quantum algorithms. This is the first book aimed at this market. Other books that cover the same material assume a higher level of mathematical sophistication. This book simplifies that mathematics as much as possible. It proceeds gently with many examples

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goostavosSep 2026

Meaty: Quarantine by Greg Egan. Easily my favorite book so far this year. It starts as a detective story, but then spirals into something much bigger. Forced beliefs, quantum super positions, and the existential dread of repeatedly facing your own non-existence. It's second only to Permutation City in my Egan tier list.

That book led me to Quantum Computing for Everyone. It's good so far, but more work than expected to follow along being that I'm dumb.

Since the question is what are you reading (not what have you read): Ant-Kind by Charlie Kaufman. It's too soon to say if it's good or not, but it has made me laugh out loud several times. I'm about 80 pages in, and it's only just now started to open up into Kaufman's recursive, meta story telling that makes his film stuff so cool.

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akasakahakadaApr 2023

Discrete Mathematics By Oscar Levin

https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3.html

No bullshit guide to discrete math. I have never seen any regular math textbook can explain stuff better than this.

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Quantum Computing for Everyone By Chris Bernhardt

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539531/quantum-computing-for...

The easiest to follow quantum computing introductory textbook.

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Matters and Interaction By Ruth Chabay, Bruce Sherwood

https://matterandinteractions.org/

The best introductory physics textbook ever. Every concept is consistent throughout the whole book. For example they introduce momentum simultaneously with relativity. They let you know classical physics is just appropriation in the first chapter. They introduce p=mv before f=ma. Which shows that this is not just another copycat book.

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christopherbalzDec 2019

I am enjoying "Quantum Computing for Everyone". It's by an MIT math professor, and is certainly for "everyone" . . . who wants to learn quantum techniques for linear algebra (e.g., everyone who wants to do some serious work).

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