Aarsonson has been one of my favorite professors. His undergrad quantum information sciences class was great. Super smart guy, approachable, good lecturer, good person. A+ dude. I recommend following his blog if you don't already.
In the spirit of Muehlhauser's list of textbooks ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj... ) can anyone recommend a more technical introductions to Shor's algorithm -- kets allowed -- who's read at least two other such introductions?
I can't recommend in the spirit that you mention, but the description in Nakahara's book Quantum Computing is surely technical and detailed enough. It so happens that googling for the book, I happened to find a whole text pdf in the results.
Hmm, I disagree with some of the recommendations on this list. Even if people could agree on the overall quality of books, it is not the only factor which should be considered when choosing a book. For example, one might choose a book which is lower quality(however that might be defined) in order to use a book whose goals more closely align with those of the reader.
These are some of the hardest papers to write and make visible; I was disabused of a few beliefs and the treatment of number theory didn't upset me so this was great, particularly the Fourier bit at the end.
@GordonS It's an HN convention for the title. If you would delete your comment then I think I would be allowed delete mine and would gladly do so now that the submission has been "fixed".
No, it's also a handy way to show readers that this isn't something new. E.g. some readers will love to read anything new that Scott Aaronson writes, but wouldn't necessarily want to read something old or that they read in the past.
