The Quantum Computing History

Quantum algebra traces its roots to the early 20th century. The journey began with Planck’s quantization, matured through Schrödinger’s wave mechanics and Heisenberg’s matrix algebra, and was unified under Dirac’s bra-ket notation. In the 1980s and 1990s, pioneers such as Richard Feynman and David Deutsch realized that these same mathematical structures could be harnessed for computation, ushering in the quantum information age. Today, the language of linear algebra and Hilbert spaces governs everything from quantum teleportation to financial modeling, making quantum algebra a universal bridge between physics, computing, and economics.