Cuando yo era niño, tenía la idea de que se podía tomar la importancia del problema y
multiplicarla por la probabilidad de resolverlo. Usted sabe cómo es un chico de mentalidad …

© 2008 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. ity. Given any holy grail of mathematics—such as
Goldbach's conjecture or the Riemann hypothesis, both of which have resisted resolution for …

MANY milestones in the history of technology have involved the discovery of new ways to
harness nature, exploiting physical resources such as materials, forces and sources of …

T hpheoretical computer scientists, like their counterparts in physics, suffer and benefit from
a high level of intellectual machismo. They believe they have some of the biggest brains …

Universal Quantum Simulators Page 1 33. G. Felsenfeld et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 79, 2023 (1957);
AG Letai et al., Biochemistry 27, 9108 (1988). 34. M. Riley, Microbiol. Rev. 57, 862 (1993) …

In this chapter, the authors discuss a part in an effort to analyze the physical limitations of
computers due to the laws of physics. It is a result of computer science that a universal …

This work is a part of an effort to analyze the physical limitations of computers due to the
laws of physics. For example, Bennett'" has made a careful study of the free energy …

The race is on to build a computer that exploits quantum mechanics. Such a machine could
solve problems in physics, mathematics and cryptography that were once thought …

W HEN CALTECH PHYSICIST RICHARD FEYNMAN STOOD TO address the annual
meeting of the American Physical Society on December 29, 1959, the world was still a big …

When, in 1984? 86, Richard P. Feynman gave his famous course on computation at the
California Institute of Technology, he asked Tony Hey to adapt his lecture notes into a book …