Quantum in Pictures: A New Way to Understand the Quantum World

by Bob Coecke & Stefano Gogioso

Even if you never took a physics class, it may not have escaped your notice that there’s currently a big conundrum in the discipline, as physicists try to reconcile Einstein’s relativity with quantum mechanics. Both describe reality, but they’re incompatible. For non-physicists, it’s always going to be a battle to understand either, but in Quantum in Pictures Bob Coecke and Stefano Gogioso do their very best: they use pictures. Coecke was, until recently, professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures at Oxford University and is now Chief Scientist of Quantinuum, a quantum computing company. Gogioso is a computer scientist at the University of Oxford.

NB We also have an interview (from 2019) on the best books to learn about quantum computing.