Addison-Wesley
| Parent company | Pearson Education |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1942 |
| Founder | Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boston |
| Publication types | Textbooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Computer Science, Econogmics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics |
| Official website | www.pearsonschool.com (school), www.pearsonhighered.com (higher education), informit.com (professional) |
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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Pearson.com
- ^ "Perseus Books Buys Addison-Wesley Unit". The New York Times. December 22, 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/business/perseus-books-buys-addison-wesley-unit.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
