Quantum computing has been hailed as the ultimate milestone in technology, with promising perspectives and potentially game-changing consequences in many aspects of everyday life.
It is however difficult to get a clear understanding of what it is all about, as the main sources of information are too imprecise for mathematical standards (textbooks aimed for physics and/or computer science students) or simply very very wrong (mainstream news). This talk aims to lay an easy foundation for quantum computing oriented specifically to mathematicians using a really sophisticated and modern tool: linear algebra.