Addison-Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson PLC, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. Addison-Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and

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(22%). The Addison-Wesley Professional Imprint produces content including books, eBooks, and video for the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include ''The Art of Computer Programming'', ''The C++ Programming Language'', ''The Mythical Man-Month'', and ''Design Patterns''.

History

Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison-Wesley being

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professor Francis Weston Sears' ''Mechanics''. Its first computer book was ''Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer'', by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison-Wesley acquired

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, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form

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. It was purchased by the global publishing and education company Pearson PLC in 1988 and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley was sold to Perseus Books Group in 1997, leaving Addison-Wesley as solely an educational publisher. Pearson acquired the educational division of

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in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from

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, to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original Addison-Wesley with a storied history of their own.

Notable books

* '' Addison-Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra'' * ''

The Art of Computer Programming ''The Art of Computer Programming'' (''TAOCP'') is a comprehensive monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. Volumes 1–5 are intended to represent the central core of com ...

'' by

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer sc ...

* ''

The Feynman Lectures on Physics ''The Feynman Lectures on Physics'' is a physics textbook based on some lectures by Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called "The Great Explainer". The lectures were presented before undergraduate students at the Californ ...

'' by

Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfl ...

, Robert B. Leighton, and

Matthew Sands Matthew Linzee Sands (October 20, 1919 – September 13, 2014) was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''. A graduate of Rice University, Sands served with the Naval Ordnance Laborator ...

* * ''

Concrete Mathematics ''Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science'', by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments as a substantive but light-hearted treatme ...

: A Foundation For Computer Science'' by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik * ''

Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life ...

'' 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 John Matthew Vlissides (August 2, 1961 – November 24, 2005) was a software engineer known mainly as one of the four authors (referred to as the Gang of Four) of the book '' Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software''. Vlissi ...

* ''

The C++ Programming Language ''The C++ Programming Language'' is a computer programming book first published in October 1985. It was the first book to describe the C++ programming language, written by the language's creator, Bjarne Stroustrup. In the absence of an official ...

'' by

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language. As of July 2022, Stroustrup is a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University ...

* ''

Hacker's Delight ''Hacker's Delight'' is a software algorithm book by Henry S. Warren, Jr. first published in 2002. It presents fast bit-level and low-level arithmetic algorithms for common tasks such as counting bits or improving speed of division by using m ...

'' by Henry S. Warren, Jr. * ''Exploratory Data Analysis'' (see) by

John W. Tukey John Wilder Tukey (; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribut ...

, based on a course taught at Princeton. * ''

The Mythical Man-Month ''The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering'' is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975, with subsequent editions in 1982 and 1995. Its central theme is that adding manpower to a ...

'' by Fred P. Brooks. Jr. * '' Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment'' and ''

TCP/IP Illustrated ''TCP/IP Illustrated'' is the name of a series of 3 books written by W. Richard Stevens. Unlike traditional books which explain the RFC specifications, Stevens goes into great detail using actual network traces to describe the protocol, hence ...

'' by W. Richard Stevens * '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' by Robert Bly * ''

Theory Z Theory Z is a name for various theories of human motivation built on Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y. Theories X, Y and various versions of Z have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communicat ...

'' by William G. Ouchi * '' The Nature of Prejudice'' by Gordon W. Allport

Former imprints

*Merloyd Lawrence Books

References

External links

Official site (education)

Official site (professional)

Official site (Germany)
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