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Thanks; I remember reading this in the LBL library, and just ordered a copy! If there's anything modern along these lines which doesn't concentrate on "quantum computing" I'd love to know about it.

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Montanari/Mezard perhaps?

highly recommend this as well.

Cool book for sure, but I was thinking of something which would mention stuff like Rovelli's forays into Information theories of QM, or that crazy paper I found in the library once and lost completely which posited quantum entanglement worked like public key crypto. The weird ideas that didn't quite pan out. I'm a fan of weird ideas that don't quite work; reading Whittaker's history of E&M or stuff like the reletivistic aether theory in Sommerfeld's book.

Mostly interested as I had my own weird idea that (mostly) didn't pan out based on the Gutzwiller trace formula and symbolic dynamics of phase space.

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