Addison-Wesley

Parent company	Pearson Education
Founded	1942; 83 years ago (1942)
Founder	Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Boston
Publication types	Textbooks
Nonfiction topics	Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics
Official website	www.savvas.com (school), www.pearsonhighered.com (higher education), informit.com (professional)

Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is animprint ofPearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles through theO'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. Addison–Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) andEurope (22%).^[1]

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 includeThe Art of Computer Programming,The C++ Programming Language,The Mythical Man-Month, andDesign Patterns.

Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison–Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison–Wesley beingMassachusetts Institute of Technology professorFrancis Weston Sears'Mechanics.

Its first computer book wasPrograms for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison–Wesley acquiredW. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to formBenjamin Cummings. It was purchased by the global publishing and education companyPearson PLC in 1988^[2] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison–Wesley was sold toPerseus Books Group in 1997, leaving Addison–Wesley as solely an educational publisher.^[3] Pearson acquired the educational division ofSimon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to formPearson Education and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices fromReading, Massachusetts, to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original Addison–Wesley with a storied history of their own.

• Addison–Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra
• The Art of Computer Programming byDonald Knuth
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics byRichard Feynman,Robert B. Leighton, andMatthew Sands
• Alonso, M.; Finn, E.J. (1968).Fundamental University Physics Volume. Addison–Wesley.ISBN 978-0-201-00262-1.
• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
• Evolutionary Biology by Eli C. Minkoff
• Programming Pearls byJon Bentley
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software byErich Gamma,Richard Helm,Ralph Johnson, andJohn Vlissides
• The C++ Programming Language byBjarne Stroustrup
• Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
• Exploratory Data Analysis(see) byJohn W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton.
• The Mythical Man-Month byFred P. Brooks. Jr.
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment andTCP/IP Illustrated byW. Richard Stevens
• Iron John: A Book About Men byRobert Bly
• Theory Z byWilliam G. Ouchi
• The Nature of Prejudice byGordon W. Allport

• Merloyd Lawrence Books^[4]

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