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ISBN: 0684870045

ISBN13: 9780684870045

Quest for the Quantum Computer

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Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new kind of computer that would be astronomically more powerful than today's machines. In 1998, a team of researchers announced they had produced the world's first quantum computer in a cup of chloroform. In fascinating, fully accessible detail, Brown explains the ideas that led up to this accomplishment and explores the mind-stretching implications of this leap into the bizarre world of quantum physics. The Quest for the Quantum Computer is a riveting look at what promises to be one of the most important scientific and technological ideas of the twenty-first century.

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Rated 5 stars
Almost perfect

This is the book I recommend to all my technical friends who are wondering what quantum computing is about. Brown writes with astonishing lucidity and an intense focus on what he's trying to communicate. If this book has a flaw, it's that I think it gives Deutsch and the many-universes interpretation of QM a bit too much airtime. Deutsch's views are well-presented in many other places and it dilutes this book somewhat to...

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Wide-ranging, amusing and insightful

This is the kind of popular science book I would like to see more often. Most popularizations skim over the surface of their subjects without providing enough detail to understand what is really going on. In this book, the author has done a remarkable job in mixing amusing and fascinating anecdotes with philosophical and technical details. His discussion of the evolution of quantum theory is one the best I've read and cleverly...

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Rated 5 stars
An accessible guide to Quantum Computers

Some books are just out there like a beacon.And obviously Julian Browns Minds, Machines andthe Multiverse is such a book. If you wantan accessible guide to the rapidly evolving fieldof quantum computers, this is the book to buy. Brown bedazzle the reader with the number of ideashe comes up with on almost every page. All ideas somehowconnected under the headline Quantum Computers. Quantum computing seems to connect computing...

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Julian Brown's Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse

The editors and other reviewers have done a good job on this book, and I will just make a few comments. I've been working on quantum computers and quantum cryptography, but I'm very oriented toward how non-experts will understand books and articles. I don't think that there is any clearer book on quantum computers than Julian Brown's, but I agree with some of the others that it will still be hard to come away with a feeling...

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Mind-blowing!

A wonderful overview of the history and science of this extraordinary new discipline. Brown's documentary approach interlaces explanations of quantum computers with comments from the pioneers of this field including David Deutsch and Richard Feynman. It makes for riveting reading with many witty asides thrown into some far-sighted discussions of where the subject is leading. David Deutsch comes across as a true visionary...

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