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Mermin called the book "a treasure trove of novel perspectives on quantum mechanics" and said that Peres' choice of topics is "a catalogue of common omissions" from other approaches.<ref name="Mermin"/>

[[Meinhard E. Mayer]] declared that he would "recommend it to anyone teaching or studying quantum mechanics", finding Part II the most interesting of the book. While he noted some disappointment with Peres' choiceselection of topics to include in the chapter on [[measurement in quantum mechanics|measurement]], he reserved most of his negativity for the publisher, saying (as Ballentine also did<ref name="Ballentine"/>) that they had priced the book beyond the reach of graduate students.

:Such pricing practices are not justified when one considers that many publishers provide very little copyediting or typesetting any more, as is obvious from the "[[TeX]]"-ish look of most books published recently, this one included.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mayer|first=Meinhard E.|author-link=Meinhard E. Mayer|date=2008-01-11|title=none |journal=[[Physics Today]]|language=en|volume=47|issue=12|pages=65|doi=10.1063/1.2808757|issn=0031-9228}}</ref>