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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>{{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 ====
The front cover image is an oil canvas painting of Democritus by [[Hendrick ter Brugghen|Hendrik ter Brugghen]] dated 1628.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Democritus, Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1628 |url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-2783 |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Rijksmuseum |language=en}}</ref> It depicts Democritus as a young, laughing hedonist who points in the distance, as to where the folly of mankind is found.
The image invokes Aaronson's discussions<ref>{{Cite web |title=PHYS771 Lecture 1: Atoms and the Void |url=https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=www.scottaaronson.com}}</ref> on Democritus' concept of atoms and the void, which forms the foundational understanding of matter at the atomic level, is relevant to quantum computing, where manipulating and controlling individual quantum objects for calculations echoes the early atomic theory's significance.
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