Coursera Quantum Computation

[Zeuge]

Is anyone else doing this course? Seems pretty interesting (if mostly inapplicable to quant finance).

https://www.coursera.org/course/qcomp

 

[Barny]

Why are you interested in it? I think it looks fine as long as realise quantum computation has nothing to do with computation.

 

[Zeuge]

Why are you interested in it? I think it looks fine as long as realise quantum computation has nothing to do with computation.

I never got far enough in college physics to take a class on quantum mechanics, something that I'm sure most people wonder about from time to time.

 

[Barny]

Well you can't do a course in quantum computation if you don't know quantum mechanics. So do quantum mechanics first.

 

[Yike Lu]

Quantum mechanics is all about the bra and the ket. If you get the bra and the ket, you get quantum.

 

[Barny]

That's exactly the kind of thing a mathematician would say. There's more to physics than algebra..

 

[Zeuge]

For what it's worth, the course is fairly elementary and according to the instructor, "no knowledge of quantum mechanics is required."