Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley was a book publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its textbooks and computer literature. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributed its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education.

History

Melbourne Wesley Cummings and Lew Addison Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison-Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears's Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison-Wesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988^[1] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley was sold to Perseus Books in 1997, leaving Addison-Wesley as solely an educational publisher.^[2] Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education. Pearson Education moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading to Boston in 2004.

Notable books

• The UK Internet Book by Sue Schofield
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands
• Calculus and Analytical Geometry by George B. Thomas and Ross Lee Finney, based on a course taught at MIT.
• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
• Evolutionary Biology by Dr. Eli C. Minkoff
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
• The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
• Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
• Exploratory data analysis by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton.
• The Mythical Man-Month by Fred P. Brooks. Jr.
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens
• New Horizons in English by Michael Walker and Lars Mellgren - 6 Book series
• Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly

See also

• Category:Addison-Wesley books
• InformIT

References

External links

• Official site (education)
• Official site (professional)
• Official site (Germany)

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