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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.[1]

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.

External links

Official site

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 * ''[[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 Brooks|Fred P. Brooks. Jr.]]
 ==See also==