Programming Quantum Computers: Peter's Gentleman's Kit

We try very hard to track trends at the stage of their formation and prepare the most relevant books for Russian-speaking readers. Today I will show you how this happens. For example, I'll take a rather unusual topic - programming quantum computers .

This story began 4 years ago, and now, at the end of 2020, we have already formed a small, but very accessible and relevant portfolio .

In 2016, a very entertaining book came to our publishing house from foreign colleagues: The Future X Network: A Bell Labs Perspective . If you haven’t heard about Bell Labs before, be sure to take an interest. A very outstanding organization!

Unfortunately, it was never published in Russian. Yet we studied it carefully. This is not abstract futurology, but a very serious study with predictions up to 2025, which are foolish to ignore. Moreover, checking now, 5 years after these forecasts were drawn up (the book was written in 2015, even before Nokia bought them), their validity is very impressive.

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