Julian Brown

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 prom… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Deutsch, David (Vorb.)

ISBN: 978-0-684-87004-5
EAN: 9780684870045
Produktnummer: 9427985
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.2 cm 370 g
Gewicht: 370

Über den Autor

Julian Brown is a science journalist who specializes in physics and computers. He has written extensively about quantum physics for New Scientist magazine, and is the coeditor of The Ghost in the Atom and Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? He lives in San Francisco, California.