Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction

Mermin's intro may not be for the absolute beginner but if you supplement its reading with another more accessible handbook then you ll surely benefit from it...in any case you can't achieve mastery with just one book ...so this should be on your list along with Kitaev's intro to Quantum (the one published by AMS)...I would also recommend to make a pass from G. Strang's Linear Algebra Intro that covers most of the Algebra you need at this level....

Like many such book this has "an introduction to" in the title. It clearly is not an introduction. However I actually did want some depth in explanation and so is ok

Pas de commentaires sur le contenu. Par contre, le Kindle format est abominable : formules illisibles, ... Shame on Kindle !

Much better than Chaung for a beginner student.

This book is really good at explaining quantum computing, definitely helpful to me. Only wish there were some exercises in it

This is a must have textbook.

Mermin's explanations are among the clearest available, as is usual for him, and his treatment has many original features (including alternative quantum gates), and nuggets of insight. Some of his insights are not found in other books, but some are quoted by all of the other textbooks on quantum computing that appeared after his. Some of his terminology is favored by logic, but is non-standard: Qbit for what others write as 'qubit'. The only missing topic is Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, which can be viewed as an outgrowth of error-correcting codes for quantum computing, which he treats very well. This is one of the indispensible books on the subject.