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To generate the figures in his chapter on quantum chaos, including plots in [[phase space]] of chaotic motion, Peres wrote [[PostScript]] code that executed simulations in the printer itself.{{efn|Section 11-7, "Appendix: PostScript code for a map", p. 370}}
The book develops the methodology of mathematically representing quantum measurements by [[POVM|POVMs]],<ref name="Mermin" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Flammia|first1=Steven T.|last2=Silberfarb|first2=Andrew|last3=Caves|first3=Carlton M.|author-link3=Carlton M. Caves|date=2005-12-01|title=Minimal Informationally Complete Measurements for Pure States|journal=[[Foundations of Physics]]|language=en|volume=35|issue=12|pages=1985–2006|arxiv=quant-ph/0404137|bibcode=2005FoPh...35.1985F|doi=10.1007/s10701-005-8658-z|s2cid=119382552|issn=1572-9516}}</ref> and it provided the first pedagogical treatment of how to use a POVM for [[quantum key distribution]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brandt|first=Howard E.|author-link=Howard Brandt|date=May 1999|title=Positive operator valued measure in quantum information processing|journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]|language=en|volume=67|issue=5|pages=434–439|doi=10.1119/1.19280|bibcode=1999AmJPh..67..434B|issn=0002-9505|doi-access=free}}</ref> Peres downplayed the importance of the [[uncertainty principle]]; that specific term only appears once in his index, and its entry points to that same page in the index.<ref name="PhysToday">{{cite journal|last1=Terzian |first1=Joseph E.|last2=Bennett |first2=Charles H.|author2-link=Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist)|last3=Mann |first3=Ady|last4=Wootters |first4=William K.|author4-link=William Wootters|title=Obituary: Asher Peres|journal=[[Physics Today]]|date=August 2005|volume=58|issue=8|pages=65–66|doi=10.1063/1.2062925|bibcode = 2005PhT....58h..65A |doi-access=free}}</ref> The text itself does discuss the uncertainty principle, pointing out how an oversimplified "derivation" of it breaks down, and posing as a homework problem the task of finding three quantum-physics textbooks with a demonstrably incorrect uncertainty relation.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clifton |first=Rob |date=1995-01-01 |title=none |journal=[[Foundations of Physics]] |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=205–209 |doi=10.1007/BF02054666 |s2cid=189837484 |issn=1572-9516}}</ref>
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