Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an

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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 Art of Computer Programming'' (''TAOCP'') is a comprehensive multi-volume monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. it consists of published volumes 1, 2, 3, 4A, and 4 ...

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The C++ Programming Language ''The C Programming Language'' (sometimes termed ''K&R'', after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming lang ...

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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 s ...

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Design Patterns ''Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'' (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns. The book was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, with a fore ...

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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

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' ''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 Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in year 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. In 2005, Perseus acquired ...

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

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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'' * ''

'' by

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

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

'' by

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

, 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 Laborat ...

* * ''

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 treatm ...

: 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 such as natural selection, common descent, and speciation that produced the diversity of life on Earth. In the 1930s, the discipline of evolutionary biolo ...

'' by Eli C. Minkoff * ''

Programming Pearls Jon Louis Bentley (born February 20, 1953) is an American computer scientist who is known for his contributions to computer programming, algorithms and data structure research. __NOTOC__ Education Bentley received a Bachelor of Science, B.S. in m ...

'' by Jon Bentley * '' Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'' by

Erich Gamma Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of the software engineering textbook, '' Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software''. Gamma, along with Kent Beck, co-w ...

Richard Helm Richard Helm is one of the " Gang of Four (software)" who wrote the influential ''Design Patterns ''Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'' (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns. T ...

, 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''. Vliss ...

* ''

'' by

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer sci ...

* ''

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 ...

'' 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 distributi ...

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

'' 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 Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

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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 ''The Nature of Prejudice'' is a 1954 social psychology book by American psychologist Gordon Allport, on the topic of prejudice. Content The book was written by Gordon Allport in the early 1950s and first published by Addison-Wesley in 1954. T ...

'' by

Gordon W. Allport Gordon William Allport (November 11, 1897 – October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personali ...

Former imprints

*Merloyd Lawrence Books

References

External links

Official site (education)

Official site (professional)

Official site (Germany)
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