Joint Review2 of An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms by Arthur O. Pittenger Birkh¨user, December 1999 a Hardcover $44.95 (138 pages) ISBN: 0817641270 and Quantum Computing by Mika Hirvensalo Springer, May 2001 Hardcover $44.95 (190 pages) ISBN: 3540667830 and Classical and Quantum Computation by A. Yu. Kitaev, A. Shen, and M. N. Vyalyi American Mathematical Society, July 2002 Hardcover $59.00 (272 pages) ISBN: 082182161X (softcover should be considerably cheaper) Reviewed by Ronald de Wolf3 A quick survey on amazon.com shows that the number of books on quantum computing ( 20) is more than 10 times as high as the number of quantum algorithms that we have today (2: Shor s and Grover s). 4 Many people in the eld, including this reviewer, feel that Nielsen and Chuang s Quantum Computation and Quantum Information is probably the best and most comprehensive of these. Nevertheless, there is room for some other books with di erent perspectives. Here we review and compare three books that focus mainly on the algorithmic side of the eld, and hence can a ord to be signi cantly shorter than Nielsen and Chuang s 675-page volume. Pittenger Arthur Pittenger s An Introduction to Quantum Computing Algorithms
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