Jan Skibinski writes:
> Well, Frank, there are zillions of papers and books on
> mathematical background of QM and I certainly would not add
> anything of a consequence here. A theoretical foundation of
> Quantum Mechanics is the Hilbert space. Dirac's formalism
> is a neat notation for that space and the physicists like it,
> but you could use any other notation for that matter.
I am aware of the many books on QM. However, I would not expect a CS person to
read a whole book just to read a paper which has to do with QM.
Sure, it's a rehash of material available elsewhere, but it only needs to
touch the points which are relevant for your paper.
Conversely, if I were going to write a paper to do with lambda-calculus but
which is aimed at an audience of physicists, I would include a little
background in the paper rather than just refer them to Barendregt's book. (Of
course, a solid bibliography is also necessary.)
> If you are asking for a paper on application of
> QM that's again uncountable a task.
No, I'm not.
> But if you are asking for a paper on QM vs. FP - that's
> another story. Jerzy sent one pointer in his last post.
> I hope more papers of this kind will appear in the future.
I'm asking for (er, rather, trying to encourage you to write) a paper on your
QM modules, and your perspective on QM vs. FP as well. (I'm going to look at
Jerzy's paper next.)
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