Inhalt: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 The Power of Quantum Computing -- Chapter 1 Quantum Computing Boot Camp -- Understanding Why Quantum Computing Is So Strange -- Grasping the Power of Quantum Computing -- Introducing Puff, the magic - qubit? -- Superposition, the first quantum superpower -- Welcoming foreign entanglements -- Enabling quantum computing with coherence -- Doing the Math for the Power of Quantum Computing -- Examining What Quantum Computing Will Do for People -- Describing Different Types of Quantum Computing -- Quantum-inspired computing -- Quantum annealing -- Gate-based quantum computing -- Addressing What's Stopping Us -- Chapter 2 Looking Back to Early and Classical Computing -- Understanding Why Classical Computers Are Not Going Away -- Looking Back to the Prehistory of Computers -- Counting on the abacus, a forerunner of the classical computer -- Unearthing the Antikythera, an early orrery -- Calculating why the slide rule no longer rules -- Assessing what we can learn from early computers -- Tracking the Emergence of Classical Computing -- Counting on the arrival of tabulating machines -- Examining a mathematical model for classical computers -- Commemorating the first electronic computer -- Understanding the invention of byte-sized data -- Tracking the rise of ICs and microprocessors -- Joining Classical Computing and Quantum Computing -- Chapter 3 Examining the Roots of Quantum Computing -- Identifying the Keys to Quantum Mechanics -- Finding the fundamentals of fundamental particles -- Counting the cost of coherence -- Identifying the Effect of Uncertainty -- Summarizing the History of Quantum Mechanics -- Tracing the development of classical mechanics.