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Addison–Wesley is a book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
, best known for computer books. As well as publishing books, Addison–Wesley distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA....
 e-reference service.

ourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison–Wesley in 1942, with first book published by Addison–Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill.






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Addison–Wesley is a book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
, best known for computer books. As well as publishing books, Addison–Wesley distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA....
 e-reference service.

History

Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison–Wesley in 1942, with first book published by Addison–Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1970, Addison–Wesley acquired W.A. Benjamin Company, and merged with Benjamin Cummings
Benjamin Cummings

Benjamin Cummings is a publishing imprint of Pearson Education that specializes in science. Benjamin Cummings publishes Medicine textbooks, anatomy and physiology laboratory manuals, biology and microbiology textbooks, and health/kinesiology textbooks....
 in 1977. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988.

Notable books

  • The UK Internet Book by Sue Schofield
  • The Art of Computer Programming
    The Art of Computer Programming

    The Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis....
     by Donald Knuth
    Donald Knuth

    Donald Ervin Knuth is a renowned computer science and Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming , Knuth has been called the "father" of the run-time analysis, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techn...
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics
    The Feynman Lectures on Physics

    The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology in 1961?63....
     by Richard Feynman
    Richard Feynman

    Richard Phillips Feynman was an United States physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics ....
    , Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton

    Robert Leighton may refer to:*Robert Leighton , Scottish preacher, bishop, & academic*Robert B. Leighton , American academic*Robert Leighton , English broadcaster...
    , and Matthew Sands
  • Calculus and Analytical Geometry by George B. Thomas
    George B. Thomas

    George Brinton Thomas was a professor of mathematics at MIT. He is best known for being the author of a widely-used calculus textbook....
     and Ross Lee Finney, based on a course taught at MIT.
  • Concrete Mathematics
    Concrete Mathematics

    Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, is a perennial textbook in university computer science departments....
    : A Foundation For Computer Science     by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
  • Evolutionary Biology
    Evolutionary Biology (textbook)

    Evolutionary Biology is a college-level evolutionary biology textbook written by Eli C. Minkoff that is 627 pages long. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley....
     by Dr. Eli C. Minkoff
  • Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
    Jon Bentley

    Jon Louis Bentley is a researcher in the field of computer science. Bentley worked on his MS and Ph.D at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before eventually becoming a Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Carnegie-Mellon University....
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
    John Vlissides

    John Matthew Vlissides was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors of the book Design Patterns . Vlissides referred to himself as "#4 of the Gang of Four and wouldn't have it any other way"....
  • The C++ Programming Language
    The C++ Programming Language

    The C++ Programming Language is a book about the C++ computer programming language by the language's creator, Bjarne Stroustrup. Its first edition was written before the first ISO C++ standards were published, but later editions were updated to account for the evolution of C++ during standardisation....
     by Bjarne Stroustrup
    Bjarne Stroustrup

    Bjarne Stroustrup is a computer scientist at the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language....
  • Hacker's Delight
    Hacker's Delight

    Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr., is a book published by Addison-Wesley Professional July 17, 2002. It discusses a variety of programming algorithms for common tasks involving integer types, often with the aim of performing the minimum number of operations or replacing slow operations by faster ones ....
     by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
  • Exploratory data analysis
    Exploratory data analysis

    Exploratory data analysis is an approach to data analysis for the purpose of formulating hypothesis worth testing, complementing the tools of conventional statistics for testing hypotheses....
     by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton.
  • The Mythical Man-Month
    The Mythical Man-Month

    The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of Software prototypi...
     by Fred P. Brooks. Jr.
    Fred Brooks

    Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month....
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens
    W. Richard Stevens

    William Richard Stevens was one of the most famous and widely acclaimed authors of Unix and Internet protocol suite books....


See also

  • Category:Addison-Wesley books
    • InformIT
      InformIT

      InformIT, a subsidiary of Pearson Education, is an online book vendor and an electronic publisher of technology and education content.InformIT.com is one of three flagship web sites of the Information Technology-focused Pearson Technology Group publishing imprints, and one of several sites in the InformIT Network....


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