alt Hacker NewsStandard textbook: Isaac Chuang and Michael Nielsen, "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information"
More mathy: A. Yu. Kitaev, A. H. Shen, M. N. Vyalyi, "Classical and Quantum Computation"
A killer app: Peter Shor, "Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer"
Some course notes: https://math.mit.edu/~shor/435-LN/
These are the two books i had zeroed in on before asking here.
However, how approachable is the "Classical and Quantum Computation" book? Mathematics is fine as long as it is accessible. Also how good is the explanation of analogy/comparison between concepts from "Classical Computation" vs. "Quantum Computation"? I believe this is the best way to learn this subject and hence am quite interested to know more about how this book does it.