M, thanks for the additional links. There was a lot of mention in his talk of the non-abelian anyons, which I can almost get, but I think I need a gentler intro, so I'm likely gonna go with the Very Special Relativity book given that its more recent and also the rep of the EPR paper as one of the foundations of quantum computing, unless anybody comes up with a better idea. The books are relatively cheap; we can afford to be wrong.
Lot of stuff in there that feels like quaternions, which we were familiar with in the old VR days for interpolating 3D graphics, though I may be mistaken. It also got me to go back and blow the dust off of the Tristan Needham book. C. Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Carl Tollander wrote: > >> I was fortunately (hoo boy!) wrong, this is different and may be much >> related to my questions about observers, but I came away very motivated >> by the clarity of the talk to peruse his books on quantum computing, >> which were highly recommended by Those In The Know (you know who you >> are) as being popular books that are highly non-pandering ( see >> http://tinyurl.com/5q25so ). Anybody else motivated to make sense of >> these and if so, which one? >> >> > He seems to have two books, "The equations: Icons of Knowledge" and > "Very Special Relativity". > But what about quantum computing? I see this sort of survey article > he wrote with Doyne Farmer > http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0708.2837 that gets into quantum computation > about half way through. > > ..and the full list of arXiv articles here > http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/grp_physics/1/au:+bais/0/1/0/all/0/1 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
