Bub, Jeffrey, <br/><br/>
Bananaworld :  quantum mechanics for primates / 
 Banana world 
Jeffrey Bub, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy Department, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland. College Park, USA ; illustrations by Tanya Bub, with a bow to John Tenniel. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiii, 273 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Nobody understands quantum mechanics -- Qubits -- Bananaworld -- Really random -- The big picture -- Quantum magic -- Quantum secrets -- Quantum feats -- Why the quantum? -- Making sense of it all -- Supplement: Some mathematical machinery. Dirac's ingenious idea ; The Pauli operators ; The Born rule ; Noncommutativity and uncertainty ; Entanglement ; Quantum dynamics ; Relative phase ; Informationally complete observables ; The biorthogonal decomposition theorem ; States and operators as matrices ; Mixed states. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198718536 0198718535 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015944880 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Quantum theory.<br/>Quantum theory.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC174.12  / .B83 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.1/2