It's nearly the end of February, so high time I wrote up January's book. This is Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing by Thomas Wong. I think I first came across it, or at least really took a good look at it, when a colleague recommended it as a text for our new Applied Quantum Computing MSc.
The author, Thomas Wong, has generously made the book freely downloadable from his website, Having decided to make use of it for teaching, I shelled out for a copy at the rather cheap price (for a science textbook) of £11.76 for a print-on-demand paperback. Unlike December's book, which was also print-on-demand, Wong's book is well-formatted for printing.
I really like this book. It does a difficult job - introducing enough classical computing, quantum mechanics and quantum computing - kinda three different and disparate topics despite the similar sounding names - and does a good job of it. It's become my go-to textbook for the course I teach in quantum algorithms, though it is too basic for my masters-only quantum simulation class.
Wong updates the book and produces more editions when the need arises. I have found a few little typos in it as I have been working through derivations in preparation for teaching, and I keep them marked up in a copy that I will send to Wong in case he wants to make any more updates
Screenshot below a sample marked-up bit where I saw a typo. That circled ket-bra should be a bra-ket
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