acknowledgments

This book is possible due to support from Manning Publications: a big thank you to Manning. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to many individuals who have helped me in shaping the book. To my mentors, colleagues, and friends—thank you for your insights, patience, and unwavering support throughout this journey. I want to thank the Manning team for making this book possible, particularly Andy Waldron, the acquisitions editor who believed in this book and got it started; Ian Hough, the development editor who saw the book through the writing process; Ravi Gopalakrishnan for his excellent foreword; and Davide Dev Vento, the technical editor who provided great technical insights throughout. Davide has been a senior advanced physicist and high-performance computing specialist at Quantinuum since 2022. He specializes in computational physics, high-performance computing, parallel computing, optimization, and tuning.