Quantum computing is a new idea for how information processing can be done in a setting where quantum superpositions are routine. This concept first attracted noticeable attention less than 15 years ago: the serious literature before 1994 is significant, but minute. In the short time since, quantum computing has grown to a gigantic enterprise with thousands of researchers and a voluminous and ramified research literature. Ad hoc courses that try to make some sense of this subject for students at various levels and with varying backgrounds have sprung up abundantly in recent years, and this new book of Stolze and Suter comes from their lecture notes for one such course.
One would think that 15 years is too short a time for a settled pedagogy to have been established for such a new endeavor, but in fact there seems already to be a fixed canon that is followed by the...
