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Coming of Age with Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea

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Cambridge University Press

Date de parution

2011

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0521199263

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780521199261

Reliure

Hardcover

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NOT a library discard

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First Edition.

�tat de l'article

Near Fine - As New condition

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No dust jacket, as issued

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A passionate account of the early days of quantum information and computing from one of the most penetrating modern thinkers.

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Christopher A. Fuchs is a Visiting Professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Formerly a Lee DuBridge Prize Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a winner of the prestigious E. T. S. Walton Award, Science Foundation Ireland, he was recently elected Vice Chair for the American Physical Society Topical Group on Quantum Information, to become Chair in 2011.

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