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== Contents ==

Aaronson has stated that he intends the book to be at the same level as [[Leonard Susskind]]'s ''[[The Theoretical Minimum]]'' or [[Roger Penrose]]'s ''[[The Road to Reality]]'';<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://motls.blogspot.com/2013/04/scott-aaronson-quantum-computing-since.html|title=Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing since Democritus|website=The Reference Frame|access-date=2017-09-10}}</ref> ''[[Physics Today]]'' compared it to [[George Gamow]]'s ''[[One Two Three... Infinity]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Sullivan|first=Francis|date=2014-02-28|title=Quantum Computing Since Democritus|journal=Physics Today|volume=67|issue=3|pages=54–56|doi=10.1063/PT.3.2315|issn=0031-9228|bibcode=2014PhT....67c..54S|doi-access=free}}</ref> The book covers everything from [[computer science]] to [[mathematics]] to [[quantum mechanics]] and [[quantum computing]], starting, as the title indicates, with [[Democritus]].

=== Front cover ===

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== Reception ==

In the ''[[Journal of the American Mathematical Society]],'' [[Avi Wigderson]] considered it to have "much insight, wisdom, and fun", but conceded that it "is not for everyone'".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wigderson|first=Avi|title=Quantum Computing Since Democritus Book Review|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1218.pdf|journal=Journal of the American Mathematical Society|year=2014|volume=61| issue = 10|pages=1218–1220|doi=10.1090/noti1176|doi-access=free}}</ref> Reviewing the book for ''[[Physics Today]],'' Francis Sullivan deemed it "stimulating", while saying that it "covers too much territory to be used as a textbook" and taking exception with Aaronson's attitude "that mathematicians like complication because it makes things more interesting".<ref name=":0" />

[[Michael Nielsen]] called the book "a beautiful synthesis of what we know",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1277#comment-66937|title=Comment by Michael Nielsen on Shtetl-Optimized Quantum Computing Since Democritus: The Buzz Intensifies|website=www.scottaaronson.com|date=22 March 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> while [[Seth Lloyd]] praised it as "lucid", describing Aaronson as a "tornado of intellectual activity".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107302105|title=Quantum Computing since Democritus - Cambridge University Press|website=www.cambridge.org|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref>

In the [[Journal of the American Mathematical Society]], [[Avi Wigderson]] considered it to have "much insight, wisdom, and fun", but conceded that it "is not for everyone'.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wigderson|first=Avi|title=Quantum Computing Since Democritus Book Review|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1218.pdf|journal=Journal of the American Mathematical Society|year=2014|volume=61| issue = 10|pages=1218–1220|doi=10.1090/noti1176|doi-access=free}}</ref>

== References ==

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