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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> Nielsen and [[Isaac Chuang]] said in their own influential textbook that Peres' was "superb", providing "an extremely clear exposition of elementary quantum mechanics" as well as an "extensive discussion of the Bell inequalities and related results".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nielsen|first=Michael A.|title=Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition|url=https://archive.org/details/quantumcomputati00niel_720|url-access=limited|last2=Chuang|first2=Isaac L.|date=2010-12-09|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=9781107002173|___location=|pages=[https://archive.org/details/quantumcomputati00niel_720/page/n151 118]|language=en|oclc=844974180|author-link=Michael Nielsen|author-link2=Isaac Chuang}}</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: