Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Atoms and the void
- 2 Sets
- 3 Gödel, Turing, and friends
- 4 Minds and machines
- 5 Paleocomplexity
- 6 P, NP, and friends
- 7 Randomness
- 8 Crypto
- 9 Quantum
- 10 Quantum computing
- 11 Penrose
- 12 Decoherence and hidden variables
- 13 Proofs
- 14 How big are quantum states?
- 15 Skepticism of quantum computing
- 16 Learning
- 17 Interactive proofs, circuit lower bounds, and more
- 18 Fun with the Anthropic Principle1
- 19 Free will
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Cosmology and complexity
- 22 Ask me anything
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Atoms and the void
- 2 Sets
- 3 Gödel, Turing, and friends
- 4 Minds and machines
- 5 Paleocomplexity
- 6 P, NP, and friends
- 7 Randomness
- 8 Crypto
- 9 Quantum
- 10 Quantum computing
- 11 Penrose
- 12 Decoherence and hidden variables
- 13 Proofs
- 14 How big are quantum states?
- 15 Skepticism of quantum computing
- 16 Learning
- 17 Interactive proofs, circuit lower bounds, and more
- 18 Fun with the Anthropic Principle1
- 19 Free will
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Cosmology and complexity
- 22 Ask me anything
- Index
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- Quantum Computing since Democritus , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013