Before Professor Lidar and I dive into optimization, I’m trying to reproduce the results found in Table 1 of the Invisible Quantum Tripwire paper, specifying the efficiency of the IFM procedure for various settings of the parameters (number of times the photon cycles through the interferometer, total phase rotation angle, and amount of loss in [...]
Progress Report: Beautifying Equations
May 1st, 2010 3 Comments
Tags: Math · mathematica · physics · quantum computing · quantum information · science
Book Review: Principles of Mathematical Analysis (’Baby Rudin’) by Walter Rudin
December 21st, 2009 No Comments
My Goodreads rating: 2 of 5 stars
‘Baby Rudin’ is to learning analysis as artificial insemination is to sexual reproduction. It’s not good, it’s not bad, and there are more fun ways of going about it, but at least it gets the job done.
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Book Review: Introduction to Topology by Theodore Gamelin
December 20th, 2009 No Comments
My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a great little intro to topology… and one more reason to love Dover books for their tiny, inexpensive textbooks.
Well-motivated and lots of interesting problems. I can’t compare it much to other topology books, but my general impression is that it covers less than Munkres.
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