Addison-Wesley is a book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC, best known for computer books. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online 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 in 1977. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988.

Notable books

• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
• "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" by Richard Feynman, Robert 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 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

See also

• Addison-Wesley books
• InformIT

External links

• Official site