founded 1942 ; 74 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 fiction genres textbooks official website www.pearsonschool.com school www.pearsonhighered.com higher education informit.com professional addison wesley is a publisher of textbooks and computer literature . it is an imprint of pearson plc a global publishing and education company . in addition to publishing books addison wesley also distributes its technical titles through the safari books online e reference service . addison wesley s majority of sales derive from the united states 55 % and europe 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 include the art of computer programming the c programming language the mythical man month and design patterns . addison wesley professional is also a partner with safari books online . contents 1 history 2 notable books 3 references 4 external links history edit melbourne wesley cummings and lew addison cummings founded addison wesley in 1942 with the first book published by addison wesley being mit professor francis weston sears s mechanics . its first computer book was programs for an electronic digital computer by wilkes wheeler and gill . in 1977 addison wesley acquired w. a. benjamin company and merged it with the cummings division of the company to form benjamin cummings . it was purchased by the global publishing and education company pearson plc in 1988 2 and became part of addison wesley longman in 1994 . the trade publishing division of addison wesley was sold to perseus books in 1997 leaving addison wesley as solely an educational publisher . 3 pearson acquired the educational division of simon & schuster in 1998 and merged it with addison wesley longman to form pearson education and subsequently rebranded to pearson in 2011 . pearson moved the former addison wesley longman offices from reading to boston in 2004 . its current executives hail from the original addison wesley with a storied history of their own . notable books edit addison wesley secondary math an integrated approach focus on algebra the art of computer programming by donald knuth the feynman lectures on physics by richard feynman robert b. leighton and matthew sands 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 elements of reusable object oriented software 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 iron john a book about men by robert bly theory z by william g. ouchi references edit pearson plc pso company profile reuters.com . reuters.com . retrieved 14 november 2012 . history . pearson . archived from the original on 2006 07 11 . retrieved 2013 05 14 . perseus books buys addison wesley unit . the new york times . december 22 1997 . retrieved november 13 2011 . external links edit official site education official site professional official site germany v t e pearson plc financial times group the banker fdi investors chronicle money management pwm vedomosti 33 % pearson education pearson school addison wesley dorling kindersley heinemann outside us modern curriculum press prentice hall scott foresman silver burdett york notes pearson higher education addison wesley allyn & bacon benjamin cummings longman prentice hall 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