Andrew Steane

Andrew Martin Steane is Professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

Andrew Steane
Born
United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forSteane codes
AwardsMaxwell Medal and Prize, 2000
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

He was a student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained his MA and DPhil.

His major works to date are on error correction in quantum information processing, including Steane codes. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2000.

Papers
  • "Quantum Computing" Reports on Progress in Physics 61: 117-173. Steane, A.M. (1998)
  • "A Quantum Computer Needs Only One Universe" Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34B: 469-478, Steane, A.M. (2003)

Books
  • The Wonderful World of Relativity: A Precise Guide for the General Reader. Oxford U. Press. 2011. ISBN 9780199694617.
  • Relativity Made Relatively Easy. Oxford U. Press. 2012.[1]

'Relativity Made Relatively Easy' is a text that follows closely to the 'Symmetry and Relativity' course that he teaches to third-year undergraduates at the University of Oxford. Except for Spinors, which is intended to be included in his next publication.

  • Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion. Oxford U. Press. 2014.[2]
gollark: It would be neat if they were cryptographically signed too, but it turns out I have no idea what actual algorithm the potatOS ECC library is implementing, oops.
gollark: So, progress on the potatoupdates™ system, I now have a script generating manifest files which are deterministically generated from the exact contents of a PotatOS version™.
gollark: > multiprocessing.pool objects have internal resources that need to be properly managed (like any other resource) by using the pool as a context manager or by calling close() and terminate() manually. Failure to do this can lead to the process hanging on finalization.> Note that is not correct to rely on the garbage colletor to destroy the pool as CPython does not assure that the finalizer of the pool will be called (see object.__del__() for more information).Great abstraction there, Python. Really great.
gollark: No, I mean I was reading from underneath the line it highlighted, which was the POST documentation.
gollark: Oh, never mind, the link was just being confusing.

References
  1. Bussey, Peter J. (2013). "Review: Relativity Made Relatively Easy by Andrew M. Steane". Contemporary Physics. 54 (2): 124. Bibcode:2013ConPh..54..124B. doi:10.1080/00107514.2013.800151.
  2. Holder, Rodney (2015). "Review: Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion by Andrew Steane". J Theol Studies: flv044. doi:10.1093/jts/flv044.


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