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Quantum Computing since Democritus by Scott Aaronson
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £34.00Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields Sean Carroll 9780861549801
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and... -
The Once and Future Turing: Computing the World by S. Barry Cooper
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.37Alan Turing (1912-1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll 9780861546480
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and... -
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
Booksplease Price: £8.65What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of... -
Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously by Richard Elwes 9781399818827
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'Fascinating and immensely readable' Ian Stewart 'A charming tour through the realm of the very, very, very numerous, from the ancient world through to the distant future' Jordan Ellenberg, author of... -
Quantum Theory from First Principles: An Informational Approach by Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano 9781108714419
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £38.62Quantum theory is the soul of theoretical physics. It is not just a theory of specific physical systems, but rather a new framework with universal applicability. This book shows how we can... -
Quantum Theory from First Principles: An Informational Approach by Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £61.65Quantum theory is the soul of theoretical physics. It is not just a theory of specific physical systems, but rather a new framework with universal applicability. This book shows how we can... -
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory: An Effective Theory Approach to Understanding Neural Networks by Daniel A. Roberts
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.69This textbook establishes a theoretical framework for understanding deep learning models of practical relevance. With an approach that borrows from theoretical physics, Roberts and Yaida provide... -
The Nature of Computation by Cristopher Moore 9780199233212
Booksplease Price: £88.54Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology. But this beauty is often buried... -
Coming of Age With Quantum Information: Notes on a Paulian Idea by Christopher A. Fuchs 9780521199261
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.86A passionate and personal account of the early days of quantum information and quantum computing, this unique book is a collection of more than 500 letters between the author and many of the founders... -
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible by Lance Fortnow
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.42The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. Simply stated, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly checked by computer can... -
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information: 10th Anniversary Edition by Michael A. Nielsen 9781107002173
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.99One of the most cited books in physics of all time, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information remains the best textbook in this exciting field of science. This 10th anniversary edition includes an... -
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Dr. Kelly Weinersmith 9780141993300
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it?... -
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.02Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll 9781786078360
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the... -
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI by Eliezer Yudkowsky 9781847928924
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.84'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY** A Guardian biggest... -
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 9780198754626
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.18Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same...