Book ID: CBB001500143

Coming of Age with Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea: Selected Correspondence, 1995--2001 (2011)

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Fuchs, Christopher A. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: lv + 543 pp.
Language: English

A passionate and personal account of the early days of quantum information and quantum computing, this unique book is a collection of more than 500 letters between the author and many of the founders of these intriguing fields. Christopher A. Fuchs is one of the most penetrating modern thinkers on the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics. This remarkable book follows his journey as he comes to grips with the quantum world. It contains correspondence with Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Rolf Landauer, N. David Mermin, Michael Nielsen, Asher Peres, John Preskill, Abner Shimony, William Wootters, Anton Zeilinger, and many others. Filled with diary entries, anecdotes, historical selections, and research ideas, this book will fascinate physicists, philosophers, and historians of science.

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Essay Review Benedictus, Fedde (2012) Quantum Information [Review Essay Number 1500141]. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 595-600). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Benedictus, Fedde
Waide, Robert
Huertas-Maestro, Miguel
Fagnani, Martino Lorenzo
Tim Fedak
Himmel, Torsten K. D.
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Research
Discipline formation
Correspondence and corresponding
Chemistry
Primary literature (historical sources)
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
18th century
Modern
20th century
Places
United States
Netherlands
Spain
Germany
West Germany
Nova Scotia
Institutions
Census of Marine Life (1999-2009)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Human Genome Project
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