Ch. 10
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The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is.
— David Deutsch
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "David Deutsch" (Quotes, The Fabric of Reality (1997))
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About David Deutsch
David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
About David Deutsch
David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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