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= ECE595 Spring 2020: Course Textbooks

The recommended but not required textbooks are:
- “Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction” by David Mermin
- “Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction” by Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak.

I would be remiss not to mention some standard texts on quantum information and computation, which can be excellent material for those wishing to further explore the subject:
- "Quantum Computation and Information" by Nielson & Chuang
- The lecture notes by John Preskill found [http://www.theory.caltech.edu/%7Epreskill/ph219/index.html here]