| MINDS, MACHINES AND THE MULTIVERSE: The Quest for the Quantum Computer Julian Brown David Deutsch (Fwd.) New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN 0-684-81481-1 | 396pp. | HC/GSI | $30.00 | |
| Page 31: | "Fredkin, therefore, anticipated the time when nearly all the atoms or molecules in lump of matter can be put to worthwhile computational use." |
| S/B: "in a lump of matter" |
| Page 109: | "He had a big incentive to find a method of testing different quantum interpretation because the interpretation he favored was so strange." |
| S/B: "different quantum interpretations". |
| Page 125: | "Vector techniques, and their generalizations to higher dimensions called tensors, are widely used in the mathematical treatment of quantum systems." |
| Is this the correct definition of "tensors"? |
| Page 155: | "y = x mod a What this means is that if you divide y by a you get a remainder x." |
| This is backwards; S/B: "if you divide y by x you get a remainder a." |
| Page 158: | "After a few rocky years the company began to thrive as its secured licensing deals with Lotus Notes..." |
| S/B: "as it secured licensing deals". |
| Page 159: | "Calculating d is straightforward if (p-1)(q-1)." |
| S/B: "Calculating d is straightforward if (p-1)(q-1) is known.". |
| Page 170: | "What was a truly astonishing about his discovery..." |
| S/B: "was truly astonishing". |
| Page 256: | Figure 7.7 and its description in the text below |
| Figure 7.7 and its description in the text below reverse the order of the hydrogen atoms Ha and Hb. |
| Page 297: | "Another aspect of quantum algorithms that become apparent..." |
| S/B either "became apparent" or "becomes apparent". |
| Page 321: | "What do we actually know about microtubules? They certainly appear to be extraordinarily versatile in their function: they are involved in structural support, they are responsible for the whiplike motion of the cilia used by bacterium to swim, they pull apart the chromosomes..." |
| S/B: either "by bacteria" or "by a bacterium". |
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