"Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists" will be the first text on quantum computing written from the start with a focus on Computer Science. As the title itself suggests, it is a book ON Quantum Computing FOR Computer Scientists, students and professionals alike. As such, it does not assume that you have a PhD in mathematics or physics. In fact, you do not need much more than the ability to multiply matrices with complex number entries to understand this wondrous new field of research!
Our text is also interspersed with many programming drills, that will keep you hands-on thoughout the text.
Here is the table of contents. The first two chapters provide the full mathematical preliminaries needed for the book. Chapter 3 is a general introduction to the ideas of quantum mechanics from the standpoint of a computer scientist. Chapter 4 is a more formal presentation of basic quantum mechanical notions. Each subsequent chapter, from 5 through 11, is named after one of your favorite computer science courses. Each one of these latter chapters is self-contained. They all start by reminding you of some standard aspect of computer science, yet stated in a way that is easily generalizable. We then move on and talk about the quantum computing aspect of that branch of computer science.
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