# Introductory book recommendations

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**Category:** Quantum\
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**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066 "2020-08-16T21:59:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/1 "2020-08-16T21:59:11Z")

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I’m looking for good textbooks about _quantum computing_, _quantum informatics_ and _quantum biology_. Any PDF availabe online for free is acceptable. Do you have any recommendations?

Preferrably, they should be at introductory level (\<500 pages 😆).

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**Author:** ![mohamed82008](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mohamed82008/32/18171_2.png) [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/2 "2020-08-16T22:15:35Z")

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Not an expert, but I found this talk [Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM) useful and it has further reading recommendations at 1:16:36.

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**Author:** ![orialb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/65b543/32.png) [@orialb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/orialb)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/3 "2020-08-20T08:06:01Z")

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For quantum computing have a look at John Preskill’s lecture notes [http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/](http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph229/)

There is a lot of material there, but I think the notes are well written and self - contained (I obviously haven’t read all of it, but this is my impression from looking at a few sections when I looked up some specific topics).

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**Author:** ![dtunacs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dtunacs/32/17324_2.png) [@dtunacs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dtunacs)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/4 "2020-08-23T14:56:49Z")

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In my awesome curated list project, I have listed some good resources for quantum computing and getting started with quantum programming. If you wish, you can take a look here.

[https://github.com/dtunacs/QuantumDiary#qc-books](https://github.com/dtunacs/QuantumDiary#qc-books)

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/5 "2020-12-09T12:32:16Z")

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Do you found a good position?

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**Author:** ![BoltzmannEntropy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/boltzmannentropy/32/43605_2.png) [@BoltzmannEntropy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BoltzmannEntropy)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/introductory-book-recommendations/45066/6 "2022-10-17T08:11:04Z")

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I maintain one of the biggest lists of publicly available quantum computing books:

> **[GitHub - BoltzmannEntropy/polarization: A group for computer scientists and...](https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/polarization)**
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> A group for computer scientists and physicists with aspirations of becoming quantum scientists. Quantum computing, jobs, books and graduate school are amongst the topics covered. - GitHub - Boltzma...