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==Reception==
Physicist Leslie E. Ballentine gave the textbook a positive review, declaring it a good introduction to [[quantum foundations]] and ongoing research therein.<ref name="Ballentine">{{Cite journal|last=Ballentine|first=Leslie E.|date=March 1995|title=none|url=|journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]|language=en|volume=63|issue=3|pages=285–286|doi=10.1119/1.17946|issn=0002-9505 }}</ref> [[John C. Baez]] also gave the book a positive assessment, calling it "clear-headed" and finding that it contained "a lot of gems that I hadn't seen", such as the [[Wigner–Araki–Yanase theorem]].<ref name="Baez">{{Cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week33.html|title=week33|last=Baez|first=John C.|authorlink=John C. Baez|date=1994-05-10|website=[[This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> [[Michael Nielsen]] wrote of the textbook, "Revelation! Suddenly, all the key results of 30 years of work (several of those results due to Asher) were distilled into beautiful and simple explanations."<ref>{{cite web|last=Nielsen|first=Michael A.|author-link=Michael Nielsen|title=Asher Peres|url=http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/asher-peres/|date=2005-01-05|website=michaelnielsen.org|access-date=2018-02-21}}</ref>
[[N. David Mermin]] wrote that Peres had bridged the "textual gap" between conceptually-oriented books, aimed at understanding what quantum physics implies about the nature of the world, and more practical books intended to teach how to apply quantum mechanics. Mermin found the book praiseworthy, noting that he had "only a few complaints". He wrote,
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[[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' selection 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 name="Mayer">{{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>
Mermin, Mayer and Baez noted that Peres briefly dismissed the [[many-worlds interpretation]] of quantum mechanics.<ref name="Baez"/><ref name="Mermin"/><ref name="Mayer"/> Peres argued that all varieties of many-worlds interpretations merely shifted the arbitrariness or vagueness of the [[wavefunction collapse]] idea to the question of when "worlds" can be regarded as separate, and that no objective criterion for that separation can actually be formulated. Moreover, Peres dismissed "spontaneous collapse" models like [[Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory]] in the same brief section, designating them "deviant mutations" of quantum mechanics.<ref name="Mermin"/>
Manuel Bächtold analyzed Peres' textbook from a standpoint of [[Pragmatism|philosophical pragmatism]].<ref name="Healey">{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-bayesian/|title=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|last=Healey|first=Richard|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, [[Stanford University]]|year=2016|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|chapter=Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory}}</ref>
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