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This strikes me more as a success of science journalism (people are inspired to improve their understanding of physics) and a failure of science education (inte
by panglott 10y ago
This strikes me more as a success of science journalism (people are inspired to improve their understanding of physics) and a failure of science education (intelligent, motivated amateurs receive no support outside of formal education).
Along these lines, is there a good recommended contemporary popular work on quantum physics for non-physicists?
- ivan_ah 10y agoThe "mechanics" of QM is linear algebra, so you should get a good base in LA before looking into QM. My upcoming book on LA has chapter on QM, specifically "matrix" quantum mechanics, which is the subset of quantum physics phenomena that can be represented using finite-dimensional vectors, matrices, projections, etc. For the full "physicsy" QM course, you'll need to learn about the wave function formalism, which is a bit more complicated...
- Ono-Sendai 10y agoI am considering writing a blog post series on 'Quantum physics for programmers', would you find that interesting?